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I think he should be remembered as both good and evil. He was good because he established his civil code, forged an army that was built on merit, not birth and he was undefeated until the Battle of Aspern-Essling. He was evil because regardless of whether he initiated the wars between 1804 and 1815, his wars for Empire were responsible for more deaths than any single man before him. Despite his soldiers' absolute loyalty to him, he was careless with their lives.
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Political accomplishment - The Coup of Brumaire was the coup d’état that overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and replaced it with the French Consulate. Abbé Sieyès and Talleyrand planned the coup with the help of General Napoleon Bonaparte. This event is viewed as the effective end of the French Revolution. They conspired on 18 Brumaire and they overthrew the government on 19 Brumaire.
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Economic Success- It is the national bank of France, created to restore confidence in the French banking system after the financial outbursts of the revolutionary period. The headquarters are in Paris, France. The bank was originally granted the particular privilege to issue banknotes in Paris for a period of 15 years; it was later approved to establish discount offices in towns where economic requirements made this necessary, and it was finally empowered to exercise its privileges.
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Military achievement - The Battle of Marengo was a close victory for Napoleon Bonaparte, fought on the Marengo Plain between Napoleon's 28,000 troops and 31,000 Austrian troops under General Michael Friedrich von Melas. In the end, the French line went over the offensive and forced the Austrians to return to Alessandria. Due to this, France won Lombardy. In this battle, The Austrian troops had around 7,500 dead or wounded and thousands captured. The French had about 6,000 dead or wounded.
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Political accomplishment - The Treaty of Luneville was a treaty signed between the French Republic and the Holy Roman Emperor Francis ll in Treaty House of Lunéville. This treaty ended marked the end of the Second Coalition. The Treaty of Lunéville declared that "there shall be, henceforth and forever, peace, amity, and good understanding" among the parties. Certain Austrian holdings in Germany were relinquished and the French control was extended to the left bank of the Rhine.
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Political accomplishment- The Treaty of Amiens was an agreement signed at Amiens by Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. It ignored some questions that divided Britain and France, such as Savoy, and Switzerland and the trade relations between Britain and the French-controlled European continent. France and its allies gained most of their colonies, though Britain retained Trinidad taken from Spain. France agreed to evacuate Naples and the Papal States and Britain restored Egypt.
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Political Achievement - On August 2, 1802, plebiscite confirmed Napoleon as the First Consul out of 3 for life. The Consulate had full power and elections were ended. Napoleon obtained dictatorial powers.
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Economic Success - The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi of land. Napoleon sold the land because he needed the money for the Great French War.
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Social Reform- The Napoleonic Code, also known as the Civil Code, was enacted on March 21, 1804 and to this day is extant with revisions. It was the main influence on the 19th-century civil codes of most countries of continental Europe and Latin America. Under the code all male citizens are equal. The first book of the code deals with the law of persons, the second book deals with the law of things, and the third book deals with the methods of acquiring rights.
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Military Achievement- The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors was the first engagement of the War of the Third Coalition and it was one of Napoleon’s greatest victories. His 68,000 troops defeated almost 90,000 Russians and Austrians. The troops were under General M.I. Kutuzov forcing Austria to make peace with France. The battle took place near Austerlitz in Moravia. They lost 15,000 men killed and wounded and 11,000 captured, while Napoleon lost 9,000 men.
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Economic Success- It was a blockade designed by Napoleon to deaden Great Britain through the destruction of British trade. The decrees of Berlin and Milan proclaimed a blockade and neutrals and French allies were not to trade with the British. This hurt the English industries. This also helped stimulate manufacturing in some parts of France.
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Social Reform- The University of France was a highly centralized educational state organization founded by Napoleon and given authority not only over the individual universities but also over primary and secondary education. The former individual universities were known as "academies", but each still retained a rector and local board of its own.
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Military Achievement- The Six Days Campaign, which went on from February 10 to 15, 1814, was a final series of victories by the forces of Napoleon as the Sixth Coalition closed in on Paris. Napoleon only had an army of 70,000, while Field Marshal Prince von Blücher had many troops. Napoleon inflicted four major defeats on Blücher's army in the Battle of Champaubert, the Battle of Montmirail, the Battle of Château-Thierry, and the Battle of Vauchamps.
