Timeline Monday 8 May 1769

Monday 8 May 1769

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1769 Battle of Ponte Novu France crushes Corsican independence French troops defeated Pasquale Paoli's Corsican nationalists and ended the independent Corsican Republic. Paoli went into exile in Britain, and the island became part of France a few months before Napoleon was born there.
1769 Battle of Ponte Novu France crushes Corsican independence French troops defeated Pasquale Paoli's Corsican nationalists and ended the independent Corsican Republic. Paoli went into exile in Britain, and the island became part of France a few months before Napoleon was born there.