Pasquale Paoli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Pasquale Paoli

Corsican politician

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1725

Place of Birth: Morosaglia, Corsica, France

Date of Death: 05-Feb-1807

Profession: politician, military officer

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Pasquale Paoli

  • Filippo Antonio Pasquale de' Paoli (Italian: [fi'lippo an't??njo pa'skwa?le de 'pa?oli]; French: Pascal Paoli; 6 April 1725 – 5 February 1807) was a Corsican patriot, statesman and military leader who was at the forefront of resistance movements against the Genoese and later French rule in the island.
  • He became the president of the Executive Council of the General Diet of the People of Corsica, and also designed and wrote the Constitution of the state. The Corsican Republic was a representative democracy asserting that the elected Diet of Corsican representatives had no master.
  • Paoli held his office by election and not by appointment.
  • It made him commander-in-chief of the armed forces as well as chief magistrate.
  • Paoli's government claimed the same jurisdiction as the Republic of Genoa.
  • In terms of de facto exercise of power, the Genoese held the coastal cities, which they could defend from their citadels, but the Corsican republic controlled the rest of the island from Corte, its capital.Following the French conquest of Corsica in 1768, Paoli oversaw the Corsican resistance.
  • Following the defeat of Corsican forces at the Battle of Ponte Novu he was forced into exile in Britain where he was a celebrated figure.
  • He returned after the French Revolution, of which he was initially supportive.
  • He later broke with the revolutionaries and helped to create the Anglo-Corsican Kingdom which lasted between 1794 and 1796.
  • After the island was re-occupied by France he again went into exile in Britain where he died in 1807.

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