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Napoleon's troops surrounded the national legislature and forced most of the members out. The remaining members voted to dissolve the directory, and put in its place a consulate which would have three head positions or consuls. The position of first consul was granted to Napoleon.
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Napoleon created a national bank to show confidence in the French financial situation after the near bankruptcy of the government that started the revolution.
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A Plebiscite, also known as a vote of the people, was held to pass a new constitution. The people wanted stable power so therefor passed a constitution that would give all real power to the first consul, which was Napoleon.
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the Concordat was an agreement that was signed with Pope Pius VII that gave napoleon the right to nominate bishops. and where the pope agreed that the church land sized during the revolution did not need to be returned.
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the Treaty of Amies was signed in Amiens, France and was signed by Britain, France, Spain, and the Batavian Republic the treaty achieved peace for 14 months during the Napoleonic wars. The treaty did ignore some of the problems that divide France and Britain such as what was to happen with the Began Provinces, savoy and switzerland. It also did not cover the fact that Napoleon did not want French controlled areas to trade with Britain.
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Napoleon sold the louisiana territory to President Jefferson's administration for $15 million. when selling the land to the United States Napoleon say two great benefits. The first is that he would now have the money to finance operations on France, the other is that "the sale assures forever the power of the United States and I have given England rival that, sooner or later, will humble her pride"
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The Napoleonic Code abolished over 300 different legal systems throughout france. The code also recognized the principle of equality before the law for all citizens. The code was also able to safeguarded the right to choose your own profession and abolished feudalism.
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Napoleon was crowned Emperor in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. the Pope had travel all of the way from Rome to crown Napoleon. last minute Napoleon took the crown from the Pope's hands and crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I
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By 1805 Napoleon's grand army had defeated the Austrian Netherlands and parts of Italy. Napoleons had also forced the leaders of Austria, Prussia, and Russia to sign treaties of peace. All of this success enabled Napoleon to build the largest empire since the romans. the only thing left to do was to beat the great navel Feet or Britain.
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when Conquering Europe Napoleon's army crossed all of its opponents this was because the commanders fighting against Napoleon's army could never predict what Napoleon's army was going to so next. After the battle of Austerlitz Napoleon issued a proclamation expressing his pride in his troops.
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After defeating both russia and Prussia Napoleon signed a treaty with the two countries in Tilsit, located in northern prussia (now Sovetsk Russia)
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Napoleon defeated Austria in its war of liberation. An agreement was then signed at the Schloss Schönbrunn in Vienna. Austria ended up losing about 32,000 square miles of land which held about 3,500,000 people. In the treaty Austria also agreed to reduce its army to 150,000 men and stop trading with Britain.
