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Napoleon

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  • Napoleon Born on the island of Corsica

  • Military school at age 9

  • A 20 year Old Lieutenant when the French Revolution Broke out in 1789

  • 1789 Egyptian Campaign to attempt to block British Trade, but was a failure.

  • 1793 Success as a Military Leader at the Battle of Toulon in France.

  • 1799 Moved from Military General to Political Leader.

  • 1799 Napoleon Overthrew the Weak “Directory” form of government after the Reign of Terror and set up a new three man governing board known as the “Consulate”.

  • 1801 Napoleon tries to improve domestic issues such as controlling prices, encouraging new industry, building new roads and canals, setting up public schools, made peace with the Catholic Church, and won support from all classes.

  • 1802 Napoleon wrote a new French Constitution and took the title of First Consul for Life.

  • 1804 Napoleon creates the title “Emperor of France” and took the crown out of the Popes hands during the Coronation.

  • After coronation Napoleon replaces the Revolution Slogan of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity with Order, Security, and Efficiency.

  • Napoleon set up his most famous reform known as the Napoleonic Code that represented Enlightenment ideas and equality for all citizens before the law, religious toleration, and the abolition of feudalism.

    (It gave power to Male heads of households and valued order and authority over individual rights in French Society)

  • 1805 Napoleon set up economic warfare against Britain through his “Continental System” which closed ports and didn’t allow British goods to be imported. (This was a failure)

  • 1805 Napoleon invades England at the Battle of Trafalgar, but British Admiral Horatio Nelson smashed the French Fleet.

  • 1812 Napoleon invades Russia and Tsar Alexander I, but Russia used a “scorched-earth” policy that only left the French hungry and cold during the winter months.

    After his unsuccessful campaign he “abdicated” or stepped down from power and was exiled to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.

  • 1815 After Napoleon returns he attempts to conquer Belgium

    1815 After Napoleon returns he attempts to conquer Belgium at the Battle of Waterloo, but was unsuccessful and the Duke of Wellington who commanded the Prussian forces outsmarts the military genius (Napoleon) and he was forced to abdicate his leadership of France once again to be exiled on the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic.

  • 1815 After the Battle of Waterloo

    the diplomats and leaders of European Countries met to establish the “Congress of Vienna” to restore the system of Monarchy and eventually set up the “Concert of Europe” to build an alliance system and keep peace between European Nations.

  • 1815 Napoleon escapes from exile in Elba to return to Paris and take power back from Louis XVIII and this period was known as the “Last 100 days” of his short lived return.

  • Military annexations that built French Nationalism were conquering the Netherlands, Belgium, parts of Italy and Germany, parts of Prussia, parts of Poland, and placed his brother in power in Spain “Joseph Napoleon”.

  • 1821 Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on St. Helena in the South Atlantic.