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Napoleon was chosen to lead French troops into italy.
There he defeated austrians.
With this victory he gained Belgium.
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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.
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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.
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Napoleon led Frech forces to victory over Austria.
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Napoleon asked people to elect him first consul. They did in popular vote. Also known as plebiscite.
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Napoleon arranges treaty for peace with Britain
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Britain threatened by Napoleons world domination ideas Declares war on France. However they were not able to stop Napoleon and his soldiers.
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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
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Naploeon took the crown from the pope. He crowned himself emperer.
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Naploeon formed the Confederation of the Rhine which was a group of conquered German states
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Napoleaon invades Spain and Portugal
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He made papal states part of France and put the Pope in prsion. Frances boundaries now included much of Europe.
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Napoleon tried to defeat Britain by banning trade with them. It failed because it was to hard to enforce.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The allies under the leadership of the Duke of Wellington finally defeated him.
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Napoleaon was then sent to the island of St. Helena off the West Coast of Africa where he died.
