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Napoleon was born in Ajaccio, France on August fifteenth 1769.
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The Bastille storming was the start of the revolution. It was people's first rebellion occuring in Paris. The Bastille was the royal center of PAris at the time.
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The Reign of Terror, was a period of violence that started in September 1793 and ended in July 1794. It was started by the two opposing political parties the Girondins and the Jacobins. There were many executions.
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The battle of Toulon was fought on the 18th of December 1793 in the southern french sity of Toulon.
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After a quiet pieriod in the French Revolution, Napoleon wanted to gain further glory by going to Egypt.
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Brumaire was the second month in the french calendar and 18 Brumaire was the day Napoleon was appointed first consul.
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When Napoleon appointed himself leader of France, going back on the plan to have a more people run government.
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When Napoleon was appointed First Consul. It has been said to mark "the instantiation of modern empire".
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Battle between French and Spanish vs British where the British won.
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One of Napoleon's greatest victories, where the French defeated the Third Coalition.
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The Continental System was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars.
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is the French civil code, the code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs should go to the most qualified.
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The Peninsular War was the conflict between the French and the Spanish, United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars.
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One month after Napoleon Bonaparte's massive invading force entered a burning and deserted Moscow, the starving French army is forced to begin a hasty retreat out of Russia.
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A defeat for Napoleon, resulting in the destruction of what was left of French power in Germany and Poland.
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Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled by the Allied governments to Elba following his abdication at Fontainebleau.
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Napoleon escaped from Elba and returned to France before geting exiled again.
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Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army.
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Napoleon was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition.
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This time, after Napoleon escaped the firs time the European powers were not going to take any chances on Napoleon's possible return. They exiled him to the island of St. Helena located in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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Napoleon died on the island of St. Helena on May fifth 1821.
