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There was a mob of royalists that was starting an uprising, but Napoleon shot into the crowd with artillery/cannon fire and caused them to disperse and flee. This led to him being put in charge of defending the French interior https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Vend%C3%A9miaire
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Napoleon was a general in the French military at this time and used a military tactic called the divisional square or otherwise known as the infantry square, which he thought of, to take over Cairo in Egypt. This boosted his popularity in politics and contributed to his rise of power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_tactics
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Napoleon's supporters had armed themselves and forced the Directory's members to hand control of the government over to Napoleon. This is the start of Napoleon's dictatorship and the French only welcomed this new dictator after their old king because Napoleon had promised them order and stability during an exhausting time of unending chaos Link text
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Napoleon and his army of 28,000 troops fought against Austria's 31,000 troops and he was victorious. He became the head of the French government and considered this battle one of his greatest victories. This battle proved his competence and boosted his popularity to both his army and the civilians.
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The Concordat was an agreement that acknowledged that most of them were Roman Catholics, didn't force them to be, which calmed many religious French citizens. He set up the Bank of France and a more efficient tax system for a stronger economy, and led scholars to organize French laws, creating the Napoleonic Code. However, this code only applied to men and disregarded women. High schools, universities, and technical schools were created for men to educate them for government and military jobs.
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This was a series of battles that Napoleon and his allies had fought against most of Europe's greatest powers united in the Coalition Forces. Napoleon invades many countries and he won many at first, increasing the French's power and land, but each invasion depletes France's finances more and more and he started losing more later on as well. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars#:~:text=The%20French%20became%20powerful%20very,Paris%20on%2020%20November%201815.
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After years of fighting, people were willing to even take another dictator as their ruler, especially when Napoleon promised order, stability, and reforms. He made France an empire and Pope Pius VII had come from Rome to crown him as emperor in Paris. However, Napoleon grabbed the crown and put it on his own head, showing that nobody gave Napoleon his authority besides himself.
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Napoleon and the 68,000 troops under his command were able to defeat almost 90,000 Russian and Austrian troops in this battle. This was one of Napoleon's greatest victories and a significant battle because it led to the Treaty of Pressburg, which secured the withdrawal of Austria from the Third Coalition, which was an alliance of countries fighting against France.
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Napoleon decided to invade Russia through the western border with his 600,000 troops of mainly new recruits who were not loyal to him and with supplies that mostly could not make it past Russia's rough roads and the heat. The towns that Napoleon marched through in Russia were already burned and evacuated, so he could not refill his supplies, but he made it to Moscow, which was also deserted and burnt down. This forced him to return during Russia's cold winters, which nearly wiped out his army
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Napoleon's troops were stationed against the British troops led by the Duke of Wellington in a Belgian Village called Waterloo. The heavy rain that day had delayed the battle and the battle was ferocious. However, Prussia had come to help the British troops and drove Napoleon out with their combined strength. Although both sides suffered great casualties, Napoleon considered this a crushing defeat, so this was the end of his military career and the Napoleonic Wars.
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After his defeat in the Battle of Waterloo, he was able to evade Britain and Prussia for a short while, but had gotten captured as he was trying to escape to America. Saint Helena was a bleak volcanic island in the South Atlantic and Napoleon was exiled there along with a few supporters who voluntarily followed him there. He died 6 years later there at the age of 51 by unknown reasons. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I/Exile-on-St-Helena
