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Napoleon is born to Carlo Buonaparte and Leitzia Romolino in Ajaccio, Corsica.
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The third estate representatives are kicked out of the Estates-General meeting and they swear not to give up fighting until they have a fair constitution in France.
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The Reign of Terror was a time when lots of innocent people were guillotined for being so-called enemies of the Revolution. The Jacobin leader Robespierre executed thousands of men and at the end of the Reign, he was guillotined himself.
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The Battle of Toulon was a battle where the French Republic fought against the royalists and sieged the city of Toulon after two months of fighting.
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The Egyptian Campaign was a campaign to protect French trade and to make India less accessable to Britain. Napoleon was forced to flee in 1801.
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The 18 Brumaire coup was a coup to overthrow the DIrectory of France, which resulted in Napoleon naming himself First Consul for life.
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The plebescite was a poll Napoleon gave to the French people to deicde whether or not he should become First Consul. The result was 99.76% voting yes.
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Napoleonic Code was the French civil law which said you don't get privileges by your birth, said you have freedom of religion, and said government jobs were based on qualification.
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Napoleon's coronation was when Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of France.
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The Battle of Trafalgar was a battle fought between the British Navy and the Spanish and French Navy. The French were humiliated there by the British Navy and their admiral, Horatio Nelson.
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The Battle of Austerlitz was Napoleon's greatest victory. It was fought in the Austrian Empire, and the armies were France vs Russia and the Holy Roman Empire.
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The Continental System was a foreign policy issued by Napoleon which put a large embargo against British trade.
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The Peninsular War was a war with France vs. Spain, the U.K., and Portugal. It started when France and Spain had been occupying Portugal. France lost this war to the allied powers.
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The Invasion of Russia was when Napoleon invaded Russia. He was trying to free Poland from Russian Opression. Napoleon severly lost as the weather got cold and the army had no place to go.
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Napoleon was exiled to Elba after he abdicated the throne and it was declared that he was the main reason that there was no peace in Europe
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The Battle of Waterloo was Napoleon's last battle and a humiliating defeat. He was outnumbered by almost 50,000 men and was up against the Seventh Coalition of England, Prussia, the Netherlands, Brunswick, Nassau, and Hanover.
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Napoleon got exiled to the island of St. Helena after his humiliating defeat at Waterloo and the French people turned on him.
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Napoleon died on the island of St. Helena. Some scholars believe that his death was caused by arsenic poisoning, but he may have not been poisoned, he may have just eaten a lot of arsenic.
