Paoli
PASQUALE, a Corsican patriot, born in 1725. In 1755, being invited by the Corsicans to become their captain-general, he put himself at the head of his countrymen, and, and, during 12 years, waged a fierce war with the Genœse, who were in the end driven from almost every fort in the island. Genoa, however, gave up the island to France PAPAW in 1765; and soon afterward a large force was landed, under the command of Count Marbœuf, against whom Paoli and his followers fought desperately. But the Corsicans being totally routed at Pontenuovo, the island submitted. Paoli went to England, where he remained till 1789, in which year, Mirabeau having moved in the National Assembly the recall of all Corsican patriots, Paoli repaired to Paris, and was created by Louis XVI. military commandant in Corsica. At the outbreak of the Revolution, he conceived a scheme for making Corsica an independent republic. He had been on the best terms with the Bonaparte family, but they now joined the Jacobin party, while he allied himself with Great Britain, favored the landing of 2,000 British troops in the island in 1794, and joined them in driving out the French. He then surrendered the island to George III., but becoming dissatisfied with the government, left the island in 1796, and went to London, where he died in 1807.