What is two major steps in napoleans climb to power

Napoleon's rise to power as meteoric. He was born in 1769 and studied about the military; he was later to be commissioned as a French artillery officer and attained heroic status at the siege of Toulon. [ [ [ He was in the fore front of 1799 Coup against the directory and was made first Consul and declared himself an emperor and was coroneted as the King of Italy in 1805.

Napoleon  Had a couple major steps to climb to power. 1. He rises in the French Army after the French revolution. 2. He takes command of a new French Army in Italy. 

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