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King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before his deposition and execution during the French Revolution.
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period of viuolence that occured after the onset of the frence revolution between the Girondins and the Jacobins.over 40,000 people died.
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forbaded privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs should go to the most qualified.
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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.
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AKA the Spanish War of Independence in the French occupation destroyed the Spanish administration, which fragmented into quarrelling provincial juntas.
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AKA battle of the nations. fought by the armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden against the French army of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon's army also contained Polish and Italian troops as well as Germans from the Confederation of the Rhine.
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In the Treaty of Fontainebleau, the victors exiled him to Elba, an island of 12,000 inhabitants in the Mediterranean
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a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna.
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sometimes known as the Hundred Days of Napoleon or Napoleon's Hundred Days marked the period between Emperor Napoleon I of France's return from exile on Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815.
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A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition, comprising an Anglo-allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher.
