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Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15, 1769, in Ajaccio, on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. His parents were apart of the nobility.
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The storming of Bastille was the start of the revoltuion. It was a medival fortress and prison. Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille.
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The battle of Toulon was an early Republican victory over a Royalist rebellion in the southern French city of Toulon
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It was Napoleons campaign to protect France
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Napoleon claimed to be the first consul of life
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The 18 Brumaire Coup brought General Napoleon Bonaparte to power.
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The Napleonic code is the civil code gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family, and individual rights.
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The battle of Trafalgar was a battle with the Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies,
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The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars.
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This was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars.
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The war was a military conflict between Napoleon's empire and the allied powers of Spain.
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Napoleon crossed the river in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army.
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One month after Napoleon Bonaparte’s massive invading force entered a burning and deserted Moscow, the starving French army is forced to begin a hasty retreat out of Russia. During the disastrous retreat, Napoleon’s army suffered continual harassment from a suddenly aggressive and merciless Russian army.
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The battle developed when Napoleon seized the Leipzig position, intending to divide his opponents and attack them one by one. With allied strength building up on the second day of Leipzig, Napoleon spent most of the day redeploying, while on the final day allied numbers and combat power proved simply too much.
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In 1814, Napoleon’s broken forces gave up and Napoleon offered to step down in favor of his son. When this offer was rejected, he abdicated and was sent to Elba.
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The Battle of Waterloo, which took place in Belgium. This marked the final defeat of French military leader and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
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This time, the European powers were not going to take any chances on Napoleon's possible return. They exiled him to the island of St. Helena a barren, wind swept rock located in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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The former French ruler who once ruled an empire that stretched across Europe, dies as a British prisoner on the remote island of Saint Helena in the southern Atlantic Ocean.