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Napoleon invades Italy
Napoleon was chosen to lead French troops into Italy. There, the Freench defeated the Austrians, who ruled Italy at the time. As a result of this victory, France aquirred Belgium from Astria. France also aquired hundereds of art treasusres. -
Egypt
British forces were stationed in Egypt. He own a great land victory there, but the British fleet destroyed the French fleet. The French succeeded in establishing thierinfluence in Egypt. Another import outcome of the French campaignwas that soilders accompanying Napoleon discoverd Rosetta Stone. -
Then Consulate
Austria, Russia and Grat Britain defeted French forces in Europe. When Napoleon learned of this , he saw his chance to gain more power. He left his troops in Egpyt and returned to Paris. There he and members of the directory plotted to take over the goverment. They were succesful. -
Austria
france was still at war with Austria and great britian. So napoleon led his forces to a victory ove Austria. -
Peace Treaty with Great Britian
After Napoleon's victory over Ausria he arranged a peace treaty with Great Britian. -
First Counsul an Emperor
Becasue he brought peace and order to france he was very popular, so he had asked people to electrhim Firt Consul for life. They did the willingly. two years later he was made emperror of france. The Pope came from Rome to crown him but Napoleon took the crown from him and crowned himself. -
Britian Declares War on France
Great Britian, threatend by Napoleon's actiona, declared war on france. He wanted to build a Grand Empire that would take the place of the Holy Romean Empire. But, they were not able to stop Napoleon and his soldiers. -
Napoleon crowned himself King of Italy
After defeating great Britain, Napoleon declares himself king of Italy. -
Confederation of Rhine
Napoleon farmed the Confederation of Rhine, which consisted of a group of conquerd German states. -
Invaded Spain and Portugal
Napoleon invaded Spain and Portugal. -
Papel States, Pope in prison
Napoleon made the Papel States part of France and put the Pope in prison. France's boundries now include much of Europe. -
Invaded Russia
He organized a Grand Army of about 600,000 soilders of different nationalities. It was the largest army the world has yet seen. In the summer of 1812, the Grand Army invaded Russia. Exept for one battle, though, the Russians did not fight. Instead, they retreated, drawing the French deeper into Russia. As the Russians retreated, they burned villages and food supplies, leaving nothing for the advancing French. -
Moscow
In september, Napoleon reached Moscow, which had been abandond by the Russians. Shortly after the French arrived the city caught fire and three forths of it was destroyed. THe French army now had neither food nor shelter. Napoleon sent several peace proposals to the Russians, which they ignored. He finally gave the order to withdraw. -
Great Britain
Only Great Britain and Russia remained underfeated by Napoleon.Since the French could not defeat the British navy, Napoleon tried to obtaine victory in a different way.Hr forbade the contries in his empire to trade with Great Britai, which he called a "nation of shopkeepers". His order, however, ws hard to enforce, and it proved insuccessful. -
French Freeze
By then the bitter Russian winter had started. Hundereds of thousands of French soilders froze death as temperatures fell to 40 degrees below zero. THousands more died from disease and lack of food. In the end, fewer than 100,000 soldiers made it back to France. -
Allies Join Together
Napoleon quickly raised a new army, but the new soldiers were not well trained. THey were defeated by the allied forces of Austria, Purssia, Russia, and Great Britain. This was the first time the four contries had joined together to fight Napoleon. -
Allies take Paris
The allies took Paris, and Napoleon was forced ti abdicate. He was forced to exile to the small island Elba off the coast of Italy. He managed to escape, however, and gathered together enough troops to invade France. -
Waterloo
For 100 days, Napoleon again reigned as emporer. The allies, under British leadership of the Duke of Wellington, finally defeated him at the Battler of Waterloo. -
Death
After the NBattle of Waterloo Napoleon was sent to the island of St. Helena off the coast of Africa, where he died
