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Hello my friends, welcome back to Storyline English.
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It's so good to have you here.
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Let's take a breath together.
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Now, imagine for a moment you are standing on a cold hill in Europe.
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The wind is quiet, the sky is grey,
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and in front of you,
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a young man looks out at the world.
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He is not tall, he does not look powerful,
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but inside his mind, something is burning.
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A fire, a dream, a question that will change history forever.
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Who is this man?
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And how did a boy from a small island become one of the most famous people who ever lived?
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Stay with me, because today we are going to travel back in time together.
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We are going to listen to one of the greatest stories in all of human history.
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This is the story of Napoleon Bonaparte,
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and it begins on a small,
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quiet island, far from the power,
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far from the glory, but full of something important,
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full of hunger, full of purpose.
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Are you ready?
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Then let us begin.
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The year was 1769.
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On a small island called Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea,
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a baby boy was born his name was napoleone di bonaparte corsica was not a rich
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or powerful place it was a small island far from the great cities of europe the people there were proud
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but they were simple they lived simple lives and this baby boy this small and quiet child
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was born into a family that was not very wealthy.
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His father, Carlo, was a lawyer.
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His mother, Letizia, was a strong and serious woman.
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She raised her children with discipline.
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She taught them to work hard.
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She taught them that life is not easy and that you must fight
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for everything you want napoleon was the second of eight children life in the family home was busy
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and sometimes difficult but young napoleon was different from the other children
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he was serious he was focused and from a very young age he loved to read he read books about great leaders.
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He read about wars and battles and history.
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He was quiet, but his mind was always moving, always thinking, always dreaming.
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And then, when Napoleon was just nine years old,
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something happened that would change everything.
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His father made a very important decision,
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and that decision would send young Napoleon far,
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far away from his island home.
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But where was he going?
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And what would he find there?
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When Napoleon was nine years old,
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his father sent him to France,
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to a school for soldiers, a military school.
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For a young boy from a small island,
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this was a big journey.
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France was a powerful country.
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A rich country, full of noise and history and culture.
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But for Napoleon, it was also a lonely place.
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He was different from the other boys.
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He spoke French with a strong Corsican accent.
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The other boys laughed at him.
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They called him names.
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They said he was not really French.
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He was an outsider.
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And Napoleon felt this deeply.
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But he did not cry.
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He did not give up.
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Instead, he studied harder.
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He became very good at mathematics.
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He loved geography and history.
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He read everything he could find.
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And slowly, something began to grow inside him.
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Not just knowledge, but confidence.
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A quiet, strong confidence.
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He began to feel that he was not less than the other boys.
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He was different.
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And different, he believed, was something special.
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He was not the most popular boy at school,
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but he was one of the most focused,
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one of the most serious.
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And when he graduated from the military school in Paris at the age of 16,
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he was ready.
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ready to become a soldier,
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ready to begin his journey.
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But the world he was stepping into was about to become very dangerous.
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France was changing, and the change was coming fast.
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It was the late 1780s.
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France was in trouble.
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The poor people of France were very angry.
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They had no food, they had no money,
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and the king and the rich people lived in beautiful palaces and ate wonderful food.
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The people said, this is not fair,
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and in 1789 the French Revolution began.
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It was a time of great change and also great danger.
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People were angry, cities were loud with noise and fear.
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The old world was falling apart.
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And in this chaos, a young soldier named Napoleon began to rise.
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He was brave, he was smart,
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and he understood something very important.
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He understood that in times of change,
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the people who act quickly and think clearly are the ones who win.
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Napoleon fought in several battles and showed great skill.
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He was not afraid.
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He made fast decisions.
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He inspired the soldiers around him,
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and people began to notice him.
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At the age of 24, he became a general.
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A general at 24 years old.
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This was remarkable.
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This was extraordinary.
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The lonely boy from Corsica,
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the outsider who was laughed at in school,
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was now one of the most important military leaders in France.
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But Napoleon did not stop there,
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no. Because for Napoleon, becoming a general was only the beginning.
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The real question was this,
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how far can one person go?
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And Napoleon, it seemed, was not finished asking that question.
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The years passed.
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Napoleon won battle after battle.
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He fought in Italy.
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He fought in Egypt.
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He became a hero to the French people.
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They loved him.
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They trusted him.
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And in 1799, Napoleon made a bold and dangerous move.
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He took control of the French government.
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It was not a normal election.
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It was fast, it was calculated, and it worked.
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Napoleon became the leader of France.
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And then, just a few years later,
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in 1804, something happened that nobody in history had seen for a very long time.
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In a beautiful ceremony in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris,
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Napoleon took a crown, and he placed it on his own head.
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He did not wait for someone else to crown him, he crowned himself.
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He was now Napoleon I, Emperor of France.
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The room was full of powerful people,
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generals, politicians, kings and queens from other countries.
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But Napoleon looked at no one.
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He looked forward.
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Because for Napoleon, this was not an ending.
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This was not the top of the mountain.
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This was just another beginning.
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An empire now stood behind him,
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and he believed the whole world was waiting ahead.
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But power, as many people in history have learned,
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is a difficult thing to hold,
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and the higher you rise,
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the harder the fall can be.
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Napoleon controlled most of Europe.
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He changed laws, he created systems that still exist today,
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he built roads and schools he brought order to a continent that had been in chaos for years
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many people respected him some people feared him
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but napoleon was never satisfied he always wanted more
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and in 1812 he made the greatest mistake of his life he decided to invade russia Russia was a massive country.
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Cold, vast, and very, very difficult to fight in.
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Napoleon took an army of more than 600,000 soldiers east into Russia.
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It was the largest army in the history of Europe at that time.
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At first, the Russian army moved back.
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They did not fight directly.
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They pulled back.
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And as they moved, they burned their own villages.
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They burned the food.
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They left nothing for Napoleon's army.
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Napoleon reached Moscow.
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But Moscow was empty. And then winter came.
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The Russian winter.
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Cold beyond imagination.
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Soldiers died not from battle,
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but from the cold, from hunger, from exhaustion.
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Napoleon had to retreat, and that retreat became one of the saddest events in military history.
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More than half of his army did not return.
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Napoleon had won so many battles,
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but Russia broke something inside his empire.
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And his enemies, watching from the edges of Europe,
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began to see that this man was not invincible.
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The Great Wall was beginning to crack.
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After the disaster in Russia, things moved quickly.
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The countries of Europe joined together against Napoleon.
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England, Prussia, Austria, Russia, they all wanted him gone.
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Napoleon fought back.
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He was still brilliant, still brave,
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but he was tired, and his army was weakened.
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In 1814, the enemies entered Paris.
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Napoleon, for the first time in his life, had no choice.
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He gave up power.
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He was sent away to a small island called Elba in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Not so different, perhaps, from the island where he was born.
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But Napoleon was not a man who rested for long.
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Just ten months later, he escaped from Elba.
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He returned to France.
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And the French people welcomed him back.
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Soldiers who were sent to stop him, joined him instead.
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It seemed, for a brief and shining moment,
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that the story might continue.
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But it did not.
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In June 1815, at a place called Waterloo in Belgium,
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Napoleon fought his final battle.
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The English General Wellington and his allies were too strong.
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Napoleon lost.
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And this time, there was no escape.
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He was sent far away,
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to a tiny remote island in the south atlantic ocean called saint helena he would never leave
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that island he lived there for six years quiet and alone
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and in 1821 napoleon bonaparte died he was 51 years old the boy from Corsica,
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the outsider, the general, the emperor.
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Gone.
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And so, my friends, the story of Napoleon Bonaparte comes to a quiet end.
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But what does it leave us with?
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What can we learn from this remarkable and complicated life?
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Napoleon was not a perfect man.
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He made terrible mistakes, He caused great suffering.
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Wars are never simple, and the story of Napoleon is full of pain as well as greatness.
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But there is something in his journey that speaks to all of us.
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He was an outsider.
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He was laughed at.
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He spoke with the wrong accent.
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He came from the wrong place.
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And yet, he refused to accept that the world had already decided his future.
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He studied.
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He worked.
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He believed that knowledge and effort could change a life.
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And they did.
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Not perfectly, not without cost, but powerfully.
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And here you are, my friend.
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You are listening to this story in English.
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Maybe English is not your first language.
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Maybe sometimes it feels difficult.
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Maybe sometimes you feel like an outsider too.
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But you are here.
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You are learning.
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You are on your own journey of discovery.
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And that is something to be proud of.
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Every story you listen to,
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every word you understand, every sentence that becomes a little clearer is a small victory.
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Keep going.
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Keep listening.
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Keep learning.
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This is Storyline English, and if this story moved you,
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if it helped you learn something today, please come back.
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There are many more journeys waiting for you here.
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Leave a comment and tell me,
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what did you feel during Napoleon's story?
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I would love to hear your voice.
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Until next time, my friends,
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take care of yourselves, and never stop learning.
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