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The French campaign in Egypt and Syria was Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in the Ottoman territories of Egypt and Syria, proclaimed to establish scientific enterprise in the region.
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Napoleon Bonaparte created the Banque de France to foster economic recovery after the strong recession of the revolutionary period.
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Concordat of 1801, agreement reached on July 15, 1801, between Napoleon Bonaparte and papal and clerical representatives in both Rome and Paris, defining the status of the Roman Catholic Church in France and ending the breach caused by the church reforms and confiscations enacted during the French Revolution.
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The consul of life was a new constitution of Napoleon's own devising legislated a succession to rule for his son and he had taken the major steps in creating a new regime in his own image.
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The Napoleonic Code, officially the Civil Code of the French is the French civil code established under the French Consulate in 1804 and still in force, although frequently amended.
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On this day, Napoleon declared himself emperor. he did this to prove to the pope that he now had more power than him.
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The consulate was the top Government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of Brumaire on 10 November 1799 until the start of the Napoleonic Empire on 18 May 1804.
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The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars.
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The Holy Roman Empire had survived over a thousand years when it was finally destroyed by Napoleon and the French in 1806
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The Continental Blockade was the foreign policy of Napoleon Bonaparte against the United Kingdom during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Started on June 24, 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian Army.
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Battle of Leipzig, also called Battle of the Nations decisive defeat for Napoleon, resulting in the destruction of what was left of French power in Germany and Poland.
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The Hundred Days War, also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition happened between Napoleon's exile and the second restoration of King Louis XVII
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The Battle of Waterloo was fought in Waterloo, Belgium which was part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time.
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After his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, instead of remaining in the field with his shattered army Napoleon returned to Paris in the hope of retaining political support for his position as Emperor of the French.
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The anti-Franco guerrilla resistance in Spain began before the 1939 end of the Spanish Civil War. Many of their members died or were incarcerated. Others escaped to France or Morocco.
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The Italian campaign of World War II, also called the Liberation of Italy, consisted of Allied and Axis operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to 1945
