Pasquale Paoli, Corsican commander and politician (born 1725)

Pasquale Paoli

Corsican statesman (1725–1807)

Filippo Antonio Pasquale de' Paoli was a Corsican patriot, statesman, and military leader who was at the forefront of resistance movements against the Genoese and later French rule over the island. He became the President of the Executive Council of the General Diet of the…