Under the leadership of Napoleon, the attackers were repelled on Octo(13 Vendémiaire). Catching the attention of the Committee of Public Safety, he was put in charge of the artillery of France’s Army of Italy.
He supported the republican Jacobin movement and was promoted to captain in 1792, despite exceeding his leave of absence and leading a riot against a French army in Corsica.
He spent the early years of the Revolution in Corsica, fighting in a complex three-way struggle among royalists, revolutionaries, and Corsican nationalists. Upon graduating from the prestigious École Militaire (military academy) in Paris in September 1785, Bonaparte was commissioned as a second lieutenant in an artillery regiment.