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The Italian campaigns were a series of conflicts fought in Northern Italy between the French Revolutionary Army and a Coalition of Austria, Russia, Piedmont-Sardinia, and a number of other Italian states. -
The Battle of the Pyramids, between French troops led by Napoleon and 21,000 Egyptian Mameluke soldiers was a resounding victory for the French. -
The Consulate was the top-level Government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of Brumaire until the start of the Napoleonic Empire. -
Banque de France was created in 1800 to restore confidence in the French banking system after the financial upheavals of the revolutionary period. Headquarters are in Paris. -
The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and clerical representatives in 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. -
Napoleon proclaimed himself First Consul for Life. A new constitution of his own ideas legislated a succession to rule for his son. He had taken the major steps in creating a new regime in his own image. -
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. -
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 so that he could place it on his own head. -
The Battle of Trafalgar was a battle between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars.
Trafalgar ruined Napoleon's plans to invade England. -
The last Holy Roman Emperor Francis II (from 1804, Emperor Francis I of Austria) abdicated, following a military defeat by the French under Napoleon at Austerlitz -
Continental System, in the Napoleonic wars, was the blockade designed by Napoleon to paralyze Great Britain through the destruction of British commerce.
Napoleon didn't have control of the seas, making it easy for British ships to smuggle goods into Europe while Napoleon commanded European ships to stay on port. -
Napoleon accepted the surrender of Madrid. This resulted in the Battle of Vitoria, the Battle of Salamanca, and the Peninsular War. -
The Grande Armée, led by Napoleon Bonaparte, crossed the Neman River, invading Russia from present-day Poland. France lost over 500,000 men. -
A decisive defeat for Napoleon, resulting in the destruction of what was left of French power in Germany and Poland. ... After his retreat from Russia in 1812, Napoleon mounted a new offensive in Germany in 1813. -
The Treaty of Fontainebleau was the cause of Napoleon’s abdication. -
The Hundred Days marked the period between Napoleon's return from eleven months of exile on the island of Elba to Paris and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII.
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The U.K. and its allies were fighting Napoleon's desire to impose a single state in Europe, which he would control.
Waterloo marked the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte.