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Napoleon Bonaparte, later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military officer and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1796
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marking the beginning if the french revolution.
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never to stop meeting until a construction had been established.
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It demonstrated that a force of people could challenge a monarchy and overpower it.
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Liberty, Property, Safety and Resistance to Oppression.
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women from the marketplaces of Paris led the March on Versailles on October 5, 1789
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by guillotine
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to take harsh measures against those suspected of being enemies of the Revolution
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He was executed by guillotine
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still extant, with revisions. It was the main influence on the 19th-century civil codes of most countries of continental Europe and Latin America.
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Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris. According to legend, during the coronation he snatched the crown from the hands of Pope Pius VII and crowned himself, thus displaying his rejection of the authority of the Pontiff
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The Peninsular War was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
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French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, crossed the Neman River, invading Russia from present-day Poland. The result was a disaster for the French. The Russian army refused to engage with Napoleon's Grande Armée of more than 500,000 European troops
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They exiled him to the Mediterranean island of Elba