Page 9 - HP2A 012 Napoleon Bonaparte

as smaller job prospects, and that

continued until Napoleon put down

a rebellion by royalist forces (people

supporting the king) in Paris and

earned fame and favor of the current

revolutionary government, the

Directory. He quickly rose through

the ranks of the French army again

and ended as the commander of the

French army in Italy. He defeated

the Republic of Genoa and their

allies, the Austrians. He also ended

the independence of the Republic of

Venice and ceded it to the Austrians,