The English government now began to reinforce Paoli, and the cause of the French party seemed for the moment to be desperate.

The Buonapartes were banished from Corsica, and their mother and sisters took refuge first at Nice, and afterwards at Marseilles, where for some time they suffered all the inconveniences of exile and poverty.

Napoleon rejoined his regiment.

He had chosen France for his country; and seems, in truth, to have preserved little or no affection for his native soil.
After arriving at supreme power, he bestowed one small fountain on Ajaccio; and succeeded, by the death of a relation, to a petty olive garden near that town.

In the sequel of his history the name of Corsica will scarcely recur.
[Footnote 1: Rodolph of Hapsburg was the founder of the Austrian family.] [Footnote 2: His first battle.] [Footnote 3: Napoleon, with his stockings about his heels, makes love to Giacominetta.] [Footnote 4: Corsica became by law a French department only two months before Napoleon was born.] [Footnote 5: The report, in consequence of which Buonaparte received this distinction, is in these words: "M.