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Egyptian Campaign
Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in the Ottoman territories of Egypt and Syria was said to defend French trade interests, seek further direct alliances with Tipu Sultan, and weaken Britain's access to India. -
Consulate
The Consulate made the government in France more efficient and abolished most of the remnants of class and privilege. -
Banque de France
The Banque De France was initiated and created by Napoleon Bonaparte on the 18th of January in 1800. Bonaparte wanted the economy to grow and restore it in the aftermath of the recession. -
Italian Campaign
The Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars were a series of conflicts fought principally in Northern Italy between the French Revolutionary Army and a Coalition of Austria, Russia, Piedmont-Sardinia, and a number of other Italian states -
Concordat or 1801
An agreement reached on July 15 1801, between Napoleon Bonaparte and papal and clerical representatives in both Rome and Paris, deciding the status of the Roman Catholic Church in France. -
Consul for Life
Napoleon became the first consul. -
Declared self emperor
Napoleon was crowned in the presence of Pope Pius VII, his supporters, doubters and the public. After the consecration, Napoleon took his crown from the Pope and placed it upon his own head. Napoleon then crowned his wife Empress of France. -
Napoleonic Code
Officially the Civil Code of the French is the French civil code established under the French Consulate in 1804. It was entered into force on 21 March 1804. -
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was 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. -
Continental System
The Continental System was the foreign policy of Napoleon Bonaparte against the United Kingdom during the Napoleonic Wars. -
Abolished Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire had survived over a thousand years when it was finally destroyed by Napoleon and the French in 1806. -
Resistance in Spain
Because of reinforcements to the French army occupying Portugal, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain. This began the Peninsular War. -
Invasion of Russia
The French invasion of Russia began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian Army. -
Battle of Nations at Leipzig
The Battle of the Nations was fought from 16 to 19 October 1813, at Leipzig, Saxony. This caused a Napoleon defeat. -
Abdication
Napoleon's broken forces gave up and Napoleon offered to step down in favor of his son. -
Hundred Days
The Hundred Days War marked the period between Napoleon's return from exile on the island of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815. -
Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in Belgium.
