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The Age of Napoleon​.​.​. The Rise

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The Age of Napoleon... The Rise is a 17 minute epic that is part one of a three part series covering the entire life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Part 1 starts before his birth to show the state of the world he was born in to and leaves off right before the French Revolution.

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The age of revolution against the corruption of kings
The age of Jefferson, Rousseau, and the Bastille
The age of change from Medieval Tyranny
The age of unchained ideas and opportunity
The age of Napoleon and his legacy.

The American Revolution shook the world
Europe’s monarchs destined to fall
A thousand years of tradition,
The old new form of oppression,
Imperialism subjugation slavery
The Christian Church a mockery
Plebeians starved held fast the belief
Mankind having an awakening
By the second half of the 18th century

Genoa’s oppression of Corsica!
An island in the Mediterranean sea,
Corsicans are proud and look to war!
Under Pasquale Paoli,
Genoa’s forced to forfeit all!
Sold to Luis 15th,
The locals went on fighting more!
But the French were a tougher enemy!

100 miles long, the island is small
Scenic with charm, northwestern Italy.
The French won it all, complete deathblow
And offered amnesty.
The Corsicans agreed, they have lost it all
Escaped Paoli.
The French were smart, helped build homes
Led to prosperity

The very year that he’s born,
Corsica’s French dawn,
August 15th seventeen sixty nine
An islander baby, Italian no more,
The French won it the same year that he’s born
Providence,
Coincidence,
Serendipitous tone,
History’s irony.

Life and liberty
Gifts bestowed by God the father
Abolish slavery
Through providence we’ll reach
The will of His grace

A scared woman is pregnant hiding in the caves,
Escaping the roar, the horror, and the noise,
The child she’s carrying, in the damp as she’s crying,
In the mountains, she’s hiding, away from the war.

Island nobility on this dot in the sea
The Bonaparte lineage is Florentine
Governor Marbeuf, took residency
At their home with the family,
With the two boys at infancy,

An opportunity given,
Miracle charity,
A royal scholarship,
Military academy,
Him and his brother
Joseph’s the elder,
Future king
For the Emperor to be.

I am Napoleon educated by the king,
I study Rousseau Hume and the kin,
I write and I ride I’m a captain of artillery,
Paris my bride, the lights dazzle me
Theatres sublime, but the French are rising
The year I’m 20, they storm the Bastille.

The guards I see, the Swiss at the Tuileries
They’re ripped apart by the Paris mob,
I have never seen such brutality,
Red dolls in rags bloody and stomped
The Swiss guards at the Tuileries,

The French king is executed, the terror starts,
The guillotine thirsty,
Royalist, Jacobin, Robespierre,
Indiscriminate,
Even the fathers of the revolution
Had their heads severed.

The army is loyal to the republic,
My family is exiled from their island,
I stand with the revolution,
The army I serve and my future.

France is mired with enemies,
External with Britain and the rest of Europe,
Marie Antoinette was a Hapsburg queen.
Internal foes, Royalists,
Fighting for an executed king,
An act so heinous, in their eyes blasphemy,
The fledging republic is nearly collapsing.

I fight for liberty,
For myself, the world, there is no other
Lead my family,
Providence will bring
The will of my fate!

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from vir fortis, released May 11, 2023

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AxMinister is a metal trio from Toronto. Their sound is influenced by such masters as Slayer, Megadeth, and Manowar. Their lyrical content focuses on film, history, politics, and religion. Check them out at a heavy metal venue near you!

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