Napoleon

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    Italian Campaign

    The Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars were a series of conflicts fought principally in Northern Italy
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    Resistance in Spain

    During the first few weeks after their 1808 invasion of Spain, French forces captured Pamplona and Barcelona and on March 19 forced King Charles IV of Spain to abdicate.
  • Egyptian Campaign

    The French campaign in Egypt and Syria (1798–1801) was Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in the Ottoman territories of Egypt and Syria, proclaimed to defend French trade interests
  • Consulate

    Napoleon declares himself First Consul
  • Banque of France

    Banque of France

    The Banque de France is an independent institution governed by French and European law, and a member of the Eurosystem, which is the federal system comprising the European Central Bank and the national central banks of the euro area
  • Concordat of 1801

    Concordat of 1801

    Concordat of 1801, agreement reached on July 15, 1801, between Napoleon Bonaparte and papal and clerical representatives in both Rome and Paris, defining the status of the Roman Catholic Church in France and ending the breach caused by the church reforms and confiscations enacted during the French Revolution.
  • Battle of Trafalgar

    Battle of Trafalgar

    Spanish Armada and French Armada vs British Royal Navy
  • Napoleonic Code

    Napoleonic Code

    The Napoleonic Code made the authority of men over their families stronger, deprived women of any individual rights, and reduced the rights of illegitimate children.
  • Napoleon Coronation

    Napoleon Coronation

    Napoleon declares himself emperor
  • Continental System

    Continental System

    Continental System, in the Napoleonic wars, the blockade designed by Napoleon to paralyze Great Britain through the destruction of British commerce. The decrees of Berlin
  • Invasion of Russia

    Invasion of Russia

    The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 and in France as the Russian campaign
  • Battle of the Nations at Leipzig

    French: Bataille des Nations was fought in October 1813, at Leipzig, Saxony. The Coalition armies of Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia, led by Tsar Alexander I and Karl von Schwarzenberg, decisively defeated the Grande Armée of French Emperor Napoleon I.
  • Abdication of Napoleon

    Abdication of Napoleon

    Government and demanded that Napoleon abdicate. Napoleon toyed with the idea of a coup d'état similar to Eighteenth of Brumaire but decided against it.
  • Hundred Days

    Hundred Days, in French history, period between March 20, 1815, the date on which Napoleon arrived in Paris after escaping from exile
  • Waterloo

    Waterloo

    Waterloo was the decisive engagement of the Waterloo Campaign and Napoleon's last.