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It was a fail. Despite defeat the French army was forced to surrender. No British ships lost – 200 dead, 700 wounded.
11 French warships lost and 2 frigates, 2 warships and, 2 frigates escaped – 1,700 dead, 1,500 wounded -
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Napoleon Bonaparte created the Banque de France to foster economic recovery after the strong recession of the revolutionary period. This new institution was charged with issuing notes payable to bearer on sight, in return for discounting of trade bills. -
The Concordat of 1801 sought national reconciliation between revolutionaries and Catholics and solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France. But while it restored France's ties to the papacy, it was largely in favor of the state -
Napoleon proclaimed himself First Consul for Life. A new constitution of his own devising legislated a succession to rule for his son (even though he had not yet fathered any children) and he had taken the major steps in creating a new regime in his own image. -
the Napoleonic Code is considered the first successful codification. -
one of the most decisive naval battles in history, a British fleet under Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar, fought off the coast of Spain. -
the last Holy Roman Emperor Francis II abdicated, following a military defeat by the French Army under Napoleon -
It was a fail. Napoleon could not pursue the European countries to boycott trades with England. -
Napoleon failed to conquer Russia in 1812 for several reasons: faulty logistics, poor discipline, disease, and not the least, the weather -
decisive defeat for Napoleon, resulting in the destruction of what was left of French power in Germany and Poland -
The hundred days failed. Napoleon chose not to remain with the army and attempt to rally it, but return to Paris to try to secure political support for further action. He failed and was forced to resign. -
it concluded a war that had raged for 23 years, ended French attempts to dominate Europe, and destroyed Napoleon's imperial power forever. -
Edward VIII becomes the first English monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne. After his abdication, Edward was created Duke of Windsor. -
The anti-Franco guerrilla resistance in Spain began before the 1939 end of the Spanish Civil War. The outbreak of World War II so soon after the civil war surprised a large part of the Spanish Republican exiles in France; many of them joined the French Resistance -
The Sicilian campaign was a success. Although many enemy troops had managed to retreat across the strait into Italy, the operation had secured a necessary air base from which to support the liberation of mainland Italy.