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•Part of Napoleons early military career
•Fairly successful -
•Napoleon was defeated by the British navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson who destroyed the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile.
• Abandoning his troop in Egypt, Napoleon returned to France and received a hero's welcome. -
Bank of France
Help France with financial
Setup by Napoleon -
Agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII
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• a short period of time where Napoleon moved up the ranks
• became emperor only two years later
•title was self proclaimed -
•reformed the French legal code
•Louisiana Purchase, 1803 -
•In 1804 he made himself emperor
•had the Pope come to him
•took the crown from the Pope and placed it on his head and then proceeded to queen his wife. -
•naval engagement between the British Royal Navy and the fleets of the French and Spanish Navies
•During the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars. -
Berlin Decrees (1806) —> British ships were not allow in European ports
Order in Council (1807) —> France is not allowed to trade with the U.K., her allies, or neutrals
Milon Decree (1807) —> Napoleon proclaimed any ship stepping in Britain would be seized when it entered the Continent -
•Francis II of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine abdicated his title and released all imperial states.
•Defeated by Napoleon and the French -
•Dos de Mayo the spanish rose up in rebellion
•French troops fired on the crowd in Madrid the next day
•British saw the uprising and supported it
•goes on for about 5 years -
•retreat from Spain and goes after Russia
•Russia avoided direct contact
•burned down anything of use to Napoleon
•9/14/1812 Napoleon reaches Moscow to see it on fire
•Russian army defeats Napoleon at Borodino
•Napoleon retreat from Moson (early 1813)
•100,000 troops to 10,000 -
•Defeat for Napoleon
•Resulted in the destruction of what was left of French power in Germany and Poland -
•The hundred days that Napoleon spent exiled on Elba.
•After Napoleon heard that the French wanted him back he snuck on a ship and returned to France. -
•Great and final defeat against Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
•Cause of second exile -
After the defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon was abdicated and exiled for a second time to St. Helena