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1793
 
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Britain joins other European nations in war against France, mainly in naval engagements in the West Indies and Atlantic      
1793
 
  
Civil war breaks out in Corsica and Napoleon's family flees to France     
1793
 
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France becomes the first nation to attempt national conscription, calling up bachelors between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five      
1793
 
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Napoleon is appointed commander of French republican forces besieging royalists, supported by an Anglo-Spanish fleet, in Toulon        
1793
 
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The Terror begins in republican France, with executions rising to more than 3000 in December      
1793
 
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Napoleon's soldiers capture Toulon and his artillery fire forces the Anglo-Spanish fleet to withdraw from the harbour      
1795
 
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The Netherlands, forced by invasion into the French camp, is transformed into the Batavian republic     
1795
 
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The 26-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte comes to public attention for his part in saving the Convention in Paris from an assault by rebels       
1796
 
     
Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais, widow of Alexandre de Beauharnais, guillotined in 1794        
1796
 
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Napoleon changes the spelling of his family name from Buonaparte to the more French-seeming Bonaparte