Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 ??5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and its associated wars.

As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814, and again in 1815. Napoleon dominated European affairs for nearly two decades while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He won several of these wars and the vast majority of his battles, rapidly conquering most of continental Europe before his ultimate defeat in 1815.

Britain exiled Napoleon to St Helena in the South Atlantic in 1815. He died there in 1821.