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Italian Campaign (Green)
Napoleon was badly outnumbered in battle here, but In just two weeks, he broke the back of Piedmont’s army, crushing their troops with lightning attacks at the battles of Montenotte and Mondovi. -
Egyptian Campaign (Red)
The British Admiral Horatio Nelson caught the French fleet anchored off the Egyptian coast and blew it to pieces. Bonaparte and 35,000 soldiers were trapped in Egypt. -
Consulate (Red)
A major part of the French fleet was engaged in the disastrous expedition of Charles Leclerc to Haiti. -
Banque De France (Green)
Created in 1800 to restore confidence in the French banking system after the financial upheavals of the revolutionary period. Headquarters are in Paris. -
Concordat of 1801 (Green)
An agreement on July 15, 1801, between Napoleon and papal and clerical representatives in both Rome and Paris, defining the status of the Roman Catholic Church in France and ending the breach caused by the church reforms and confiscations enacted during the French Revolution. -
Consul for Life (Green)
A new constitution of his own devising legislated a succession to rule for his son (even though he had not yet fathered any children) and he had taken the major steps in creating a new regime in his own image. -
Napoleonic Code (Green)
The Napoleonic Code made the authority of men over their families stronger, deprived women of any individual rights, and reduced the rights of illegitimate children. All male citizens were also granted equal rights under the law and the right to religious dissent, but colonial slavery was reintroduced. -
Declared Self Emperor (Green)
In Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Napoleon I, the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. Pope Pius VII handed Napoleon the crown that the 35-year-old conqueror of Europe placed on his own head. -
Battle of Trafalgar (Red)
At sea, Lord Nelson and the Royal Navy consistently defeated Napoleon Bonaparte, who led France to preeminence on the European mainland. Nelson’s last and greatest victory against the French was the Battle of Trafalgar, which began after Nelson caught sight of a Franco-Spanish force of 33 ships. -
Abolished Holy Roman Empire (Yellow)
The Holy Roman Empire had survived over a thousand years when it was finally destroyed by Napoleon and the French in 1806 -
Continental System (Yellow)
The blockade designed by Napoleon to paralyze Great Britain through the destruction of British commerce. Caused lots of conflict. -
Resistance in Spain (Green)
Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain. Thus began the Peninsular War, an important phase of the Napoleonic Wars that was fought between France and much of Europe between 1792 and 1815. -
Invasion of Russia (Red)
In late November, the Grande Armée narrowly escaped complete annihilation when it crossed the frigid Berezina River, but it had to leave behind thousands of wounded. “From then on, it was almost every man for himself,” Paine said. -
Battle of Nations at Leipzig (Red)
The French also lost 38,000 men killed and wounded. Allied losses totaled 55,000 men. This battle, one of the most severe of the Napoleonic Wars (1800–15), marked the end of the French Empire east of the Rhine. -
Abdication (Red)
Napoleon had withdrawn to the palace at Fontainebleau where, learning of the French Senate's act deposing him, he abdicated in favor of his son on April 4, 1814. -
Hundred Days (Red)
The Hundred Days War, also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition, marked the period between Napoleon's return from exile on the island of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815. -
Waterloo (Red)
The Battle of Waterloo, in which Napoleon's forces were defeated by the British and Prussians, marked the end of his reign and of France's domination in Europe.
