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Napoleon Invades Italy
Napoleon was chosen to lead French troops into italy.
There he defeated austrians.
With this victory he gained Belgium.
Napoleon also aquired many art treasures to bring back to France. -
Egypt
2 years later Napoleaon sailed for Egypt where British forces were. He won a great land victory there. But his french fleet was destroyed. The frech succeded in establishing their influenece. While in Egypt his troops found the Rosetta Stone. -
The Consulate
Naploen set up a new From of Gov called the Consulate. He placed himself at the head. He then took the title of First Consul. -
Austria
Napoleon led Frech forces to victory over Austria. -
First Consul
Napoleon asked people to elect him first consul. They did in popular vote. Also known as plebiscite. -
Peace Treaty with Great Britain
Napoleon arranges treaty for peace with Britain -
Britain Declares war on France
Britain threatened by Napoleons world domination ideas Declares war on France. However they were not able to stop Napoleon and his soldiers. -
Emperer
Napoleon was made emperer of France. His cornation was held inNotre Dame Cathedral. The pope came from rome to crown him. But the pope never got the chance to do so. Instead -
Napoleon crowned himself emperer
Naploeon took the crown from the pope. He crowned himself emperer. -
Confederation of the Rhine
Naploeon formed the Confederation of the Rhine which was a group of conquered German states -
Inveded Spain and Portugal
Napoleaon invades Spain and Portugal -
Papel States, Pope in prison
He made papal states part of France and put the Pope in prsion. Frances boundaries now included much of Europe. -
Great Britain 1809 -1812
Napoleon tried to defeat Britain by banning trade with them. It failed because it was to hard to enforce. -
Invaded Russia
Hr organized an army of 600.000 soldiers. It was the largest army ever seen. In the summer of 1812 they invaded Russia. Except for one battle the russiansdidnt fight. They retreated drawing the army deeper into Russia. AS they retreated they destroyed villages and food supplies leaving nothing for the french. This is called the scorched earth policy. -
Moscow
In september Napoleon reached Moscow wich had been abandoned by the Russians. Shortly after they arrived the city caught fire and 3/4 of it was destroyed. Napoleaon then sent many peace treatys to the Russians wich were ignored. -
French Freeze
The French were left without food or shelter and had to withdrawl wich led to the death of hudreds of thousand soldiers due to cold and disease. -
Allies Join Together
Napoleon quickly raised another army but it was poorly trained. they were defeated by the allies of Austria, Prussia, Russia, And GReat Britain.This was the first time the countries joined together to fight Napoleon. -
Allies Take Paris
The Allies take Paris and Napoleon is frced to give up the throne.He is sent to exile on a small island of elba off the coast of Italy. Napoleon managed to escape and raise an army of enought to invade France. For 100 days Napoleon was emperer again. -
Waterloo
The allies under the leadership of the Duke of Wellington finally defeated him. -
Death
Napoleaon was then sent to the island of St. Helena off the West Coast of Africa where he died.
