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The battle took place in the Mediterranean off coast of Toulon, France. Franco-Spanish fleet versus a British fleet.
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Napoleon was born on the island of Corsica.
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The people of France were starving and poor. They could not stand by any longer.
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A period of violence marked by the mass execution of "enemies of the revolution"
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Napoleon's campaign in the Orient to protect French trade interests, undermine Britain's access to India, and establish scientific enteprise in the region
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Coup d’état that overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and substituted the Consulate.
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Napoleon is declared first consul for life as a recompense for the nation.
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The French civil code established under Napoleon. Forbayed priveleges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified government jobs should go to the most qualified
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Napoleon was named Emperor of France. Said to have marked the "instantation of modern empire"
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A naval battle including the Royal Navy against the combined forces of the French and Spanish Navies
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AKA the Battle of the Three Emperors. The French Empire crushed the Third Coalition. Emperor Napoleon defeated a Russo-Austrian army
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Napoleon's foreign policy
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Military conflict between the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for the control of the Iberian Peninsula
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Napoleon's army crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army.
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Sitting in the ashes of a ruined city without having received a Russian capitulation and facing Russian operations against his supplies forced Napoleon and his diminished army out of Moscow.
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The culmination of the Autumn campaign. France against Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden. Napoleon loses control of the territories east of the Rhine and of France.
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Napoleon was exiled to Elba after his forced abdication in 1814
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The period between Napoleons return from exile and the second restoration of king louis XVIII
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Took place in Belgium and the Netherlands. Napoleons army was defeated by the army of the Seventh Coalition
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Napoleon was imprisoned and then exiled to the island of Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean, off the west coast of Africa
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Napoleon's health began to fail rapidly, two British physicians, who had recently arrived, attended on him but could only recommend palliatives
