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He was born on August 15, 1769. He was born in Corsica, a French-ruled island in the Mediterranean. He was born in the city of Ajaccio. His parents were Italian.
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He was in the army during the revolution. He helped the French win many different wars against Austria. He also led an expedition to Egypt in 1798. He became an officer in thr army in 1785.
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The campaign was a disaster. He managed to keep the terrible losses secret. He did this by establishing spies and censoring the press from knowing the entire story about what happened.
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It was the military overthrow of the government. They wanted a new ruling body. They wanted to overthrow the weak Directory.
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Napoleon had enough power to become Emperor of the French. During the ceremony, he took the crown from the pope and put it on his own head. He did this because he wanted to show everyone that he owed the throne to no one but himself.
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The Napoleonic code was a new set of laws that were made after the revolution for the new changes for France. It was very similar to the Enlightenment principles. The laws consists of property, colonial affairs, the family, and individual rights.
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Napoleon had crowned himself emperor of all the French in 1804. In 1806, he ended the Holy Roman Empire by replacing it with the “Confederation of the Rhine.”
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Napoleon wanted to invade England but The Battle of Trafalgar interrupted that. When his army was fighting off Spain, British Admiral Horatio Nelson smashed the French fleet.
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Napoleon placed his brother on the throne after taking the King of Spain off the throne. He wanted to keep the power in the family. He was very close with his brother so he was trying to help him.
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It was a deciding battle of the War of the Fifth Coalition. Fought east of Vienna, near the village of Wagram, the battle occurred on July 5 and 6, 1809.
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Also known as the patriotic war of 1812. This occurred over 200 years ago. On June 1812 Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army.
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October 16, 1813 – October 19, 1813. Occurred at Leipzig, in Saxony. Disaster in Russia and it brought new alliances in Russia
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The victors gave Napoleon and banished him to Elba. Elba is a tiny island off the Italian coast. The allies expected no further trouble from Napoleon, but they were wrong.
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He escaped from Elba and, on March 1, 1815, landed in France. There, he gained Emperor.
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The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815. It was fought near Waterloo in present-day Belgium. This marked the final defeat of French military leader and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
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This is where Napoleon dies in 1821 of a stomach ailment, perhaps cancer. The British shipped Napoleon to St. Helena, a “remote island” which is in the South Atlantic. There, he lived in alone for 6 years and he wrote his memories here.
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