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Napolean attempts to make a blockade against England. However, many of his allies, including family, disregard the blockade. Britain, with its able navy, created their own blockade, taxing many ships, including the Americans.
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Napolean sends an army through Spain to Portugal to get Portugal to adopt the Continental system. This really angered the Spanish people, who started protesting. Napolean then made his brother the king of Spain. This made the Spanish people more nationalistic, and started using Guerrilla warfare style ambushings of the French troops. This war, where Napoleon lost 300,000 soldiers, weakened the French
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The American congress declares war on Great Britain, causing Britain only minor inconvenience.
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When the Russian Czar refuses to stop trading with the English, Napoleon throws a fit, and decides to invade Russia.
Napoleon then leads 420,000 soldiers to Russia. When he hears of this, Alexander, the Russian Czar, pulls back his troops, ordering them to scorch the farms, and kill the cattle as they go. -
Other countries start to follow the Spanish, and start to see Napoleon as an abusive foreign conqueror rather than a liberator, and started to rebel. The idea of nationalism also spurred the people to rebel.
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The Russian and French armies meet, after deadlock fighting for hours the Russians decide to retreat.
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Napoleon and his army move onto Moscow, where they discover hte Czar has burned it to the ground rather than let the French capture their "Holy city." Napoleon and his army stay, waiting for the Czar to return.
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Napoleon and his army retreat after the Czar is a no show. On the way back, repeated attacks from Russian raiders reduces the army to 28,000, only 10,000 able to fight.
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Napoleon managed to raise an army, however, it was untrained. The powers of Europe seized the moment, and Britain, Russia, Prussia, Sweden, and Austria declare war on Napoleon.
When Napoleon leads his army to Leipzig, a German city, he is quickly defeated, and the French resistance crumbles. -
The allied forces push towards Paris, until they capture it.
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Napoleon wants to keep on fighting, but his generals refuse to. Napoleon later accepts a terms of surrender, and on a small pension is banished to Elba, an Italian Island. However, Napoleon quotes Arnold Shcwarzenager saying, "I'll be back." (Napoleon didn't actually say this, but he was probably thinking it.)
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After hearing that the French king is unpopular amongst his new subjects, he escapes Elba, and returns to France, where thousands of volunteers create Napoleon's new army.
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Napoleon attacksthe British army near Waterloo, a town in Belgium, the British defend themself, until the Prussians come, and they attack the French. Within two days Napoleon's army gices way, and are chased down by the Britain and Prussian army. This signified Napoleon's final defeat.
Napoleon is sent off to St. Helena, a small island in the South Antlantic where he dies in 1821.