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coup d'état that overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and substituted the Consulate, making way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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as the new emperor of France, began the arduous task of revising France's outdated and muddled legal system. He established a special commission
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French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars.
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proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress.
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Tsar Alexander I, supposedly allied with Napoleon, refused to be part of the continental blockade of British goods any longer.
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abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba.
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Napoleon's French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher. The decisive battle of its age, it concluded a war that had raged for 23 years, ended French attempts to dominate Europe, and destroyed Napoleon's imperial power forever.