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Back the day Napoleon, from Corsica, actually whantedbto join the British Army before he settled to become an Artillery Officer in the French Army. The rest is,
by hef19898 4y ago
Back the day Napoleon, from Corsica, actually whantedbto join the British Army before he settled to become an Artillery Officer in the French Army. The rest is, quite literally, history.
We don't live in the 19th century anymore so.
- basementcat 4y agoFidel Castro wanted to play for the Washington Senators baseball team but wasn’t signed due to an underwhelming tryout. https://sabr.org/bioproj/topic/fidel-castro-and-baseball/ https://sabr.org/bioproj/topic/fidel-castro-and-baseball/
- lern_too_spel 4y agoTLDR; he didn't try out for the Senators. The story is a myth.
- neaden 4y agoDo you have a citation for that? My understanding is he went to boarding school in France at the age of 9 and then directly entered the French military academy. The hero of his youth, Pasquale Paoli, was in exile in England for much of that time and so maybe he wanted to join him until the revolution happened and Napoleon no longer supported Corsican independence.