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The most mortifying defeat to the British ever, as they fell to the Franco-Spanish fleet successfullly ending the British bockade.
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Napoleon was born in Corsica
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3rd estate storms bastille for gun powder
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A period of violence that occured after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins, and the Jacobins.
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The French attempt to exert influence over Egypt was due to economics, a political need to weaken Britan and the personal needs of General Napoleon Bonaparte, who saw the shadow of unployment - and a loss of influence - looming as his armies in Italy were nearing the end of thier successfull struggles against Austria
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Brought General Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul of France, and ended the French Revolution
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Napoleon Bonaparte, as First Consul, had established himself as the head of a more conservative, authoritarian, autocratic, centralized repubican government in France while not declaring himself head of state.
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The French civil code established under Napoleon in 1804.
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The instantiation of modern empire, representing a "transparently masterminded piece of modern propaganda."
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A naval engagement fought by the Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies, during the war of the third Coalition
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One of Napoleon's greatest victories, where the French Empire effectively crushed the Third Coalition
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The foreign policy of Napoleon of France in his struggle against the United Kingdom of Great Britan and Ireland during the Napoleonic wars.
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A military conflict between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars
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When Napoleon's army crossed the Neman 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
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Fought by the coalition armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden against the French army of Napoleon.
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Naploeon was exiled to Elba after his forced abdication in 1814.
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Fought on Sunday June 15th, 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was a culminating battle of the Waterloo Campaign and Napoleon's last.
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Marked the period between Emperor Napoleon of France's return from exile on Elba to Paris on March 20th, 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on July 8th, 1815.
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After Napolenon's defeat in the battle of Waterloo he was exiled to a little rock called St. Helena
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Napolean died in St. Helena on May 5th, 1821
