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In 1789, when the ideas of the Revolution reached
the planters in Saint Domingue, they demanded that the National Assembly give them the same privileges as the people of France -
Louis XVI’s brother assumed the throne as Louis XVIII. (The
executed king’s son, Louis XVII, had died in prison in 1795.) -
Napoleon Bonaparte staged a Coup D’état in 1799 which over threw the current government and made him the dictator of france
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The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII to reestablish the Roman Catholic Church
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On the 2nd of December 1804 Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris.
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The Napoleonic Code is the French civil code established under Napoléon I in 1804.
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Having abandoned his imperial ambitions
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In November 1806, Napoleon set up a blockade to prevent all trade and communication between Great
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Napoleon’s most disastrous mistake of all came in 1812.
Even though Alexander I had become Napoleon’s ally, the Russian czar refused to stop selling grain to Britain -
Led by the Duke of Wellington, prepared for battle near the village of Waterloo in Belgium. On June 18, 1815, Napoleon attacked.
