Napoleon was born on August 15, 1769 in Ajaccio, France. He was the second eldest of all his siblings. He had four brothers and three sisters. Napoleon's father was named Carlo and his mother was named Letezia. When Napoleon was little, he didn't like France since France invaded his home island, Corsica. When Corsica was invaded by the French, some Corsicans rebelled against the French. Carlo did not rebel against the French and did not fight for his island. Napoleon's family was aristocratic, but very poor. Carlo worked hard to get Napoleon a scholarship to Brienne, which was a private academy in France. At the age of nine, Napoleon went to the private academy. Napoleon barely knew how to speak French when he went there. He was teased by Brienne because he is Corsican and has a Corsican accent. He graduated from Brienne at the age of sixteen and was only five feet, two inches tall. During the French Revolution, the people were fed up with dictators, so they had a French Revolution thinking it would end up like the American Revolution. Meanwhile, the French people executed by guillotine anyone who did not agree with a French revolution. King Louis XVI was the ruler during the French Revolution. The French were angry with King Louis XVI for his unfair taxation. The French Revolution ended when Napoleon came to power and France entered a fifteen-year period of military rule. After graduating from Brienne, Napoleon became an artillery lieutenant. He studied strategy and learned public speaking. He was then promoted to captain, then commander, then general and, at twenty-six years old, he commanded the entire French army. He was a French military leader and political leader. After many hours of fighting, the Russians withdrew, giving Napoleon victory and the claim to Moscow. When Napoleon entered Moscow on September 14, he found it in flames. Rather than handing over Moscow to Napoleon, Alexander set it on fire. Napoleon remained in the ruined city of Moscow for five weeks, suspecting the Tsar of making a peace offer, but none came. It was already mid-October, too late to move forward or turn back. Napoleon ordered his starving army to turn back. As snow began to fall in November, Russian raiders attacked Napoleon's freezing and hungry army. Many of Napoleon's soldiers stopped short, dead of cold, exhaustion, hunger and wounds. In mid-December, what remained of Napoleon's army returned to France. There remained ten thousand soldiers of Napoleon. Five hundred thousand people were injured during the war.