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Napoleon is called upon to defend the delegates from attacking royalists.Napoleon fired artilery in to the mob, and the royalists fled.
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The Directory appointed Napoleon to lead the French army against Austria.Napoleon had several victories in Italy after crossing the Alps.
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Napoleon suffers defeat at the hands of British admiral Horatio Nelson,the only man Napoleon Napoleon would never defat.Napoleon kept this loss a secret.
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Napoleon executes a a coup d'etat or sudden seizure of power,when he appoints himself first consul which holds all the power.
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Napoleon sells the Louisana territory to the United States for 15 millon dollars.
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Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France, despite the fact he has no royal blood.To show the Church he was more powerful than them Napoleon takes the crown off the Pope's head and places on his.
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Napoleon is yet again defeated by the great British admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.
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Attempting to make continetal Europe more self sufficent, Napoleon sets up a blockade to stop continental Europe from trading with Britain.The blockade ultimatley fails .
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Napoleon tries to make Portugal accept the continetal system, the Spanish peseants revolted.The peninsular war lasted 6 years and Napoleon lost about 300,000 men
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When Napoleon invaded Russia Czar Alexander I began using the scorched Earth Policy or buring crops,houses, and livestock so the French couldn't use them.Napoleon was forced to retreat from Russia due to low supplies.Only 10,000 of his orgional 420,000 survived.
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Fredrick william II and Czar Alexander I force Napoleon into exile to Elba a tiny island by Italy.
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After hearing Lous XVIII was unpoular among his subjects, Napoleon escapes from Elba and returns to France.
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After ecaping Elba Napoleon became emperor of France once again.Napoleon soon builds up an army of followers.On June,18,1815 Napoleon attacked the British.The British held their own until the Prussians joined,forcing Napoleon and his French Troops to retreat.
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The British sent Napoleon to St. Helena an island in the south Atlantic.Six years later Napoleon dies possibley from cancer in 1821.
