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Italian Campaign
This Italian Campaign was fought in Italy and helped end Revolutionary wars in Frances favor. This was a very unorganized but Napoleons drive to win helped significantly Napoleon was able to fight off two separate armies and claim victory and earn him some much needed military credit -
Egyptian Campaign
He led this expedition to attempt to distribute trade between Britain and India This ended up being a disaster and he quickly retreated back to France and told about the victory even though it was a loss. People believed him though and was deemed a hero’s welcome back -
Consulate
This was the French government after Napoleon threw over the Directory The consulate became a 3 man governing board that replaced the Directory -
Banque de France
The banque de France was created to help the recently destroyed economy recover. -
Concordat of 1801
The point of this was to heal divisions with the Catholic Church. The real purpose was to get the church understate control Some of the things that d came out of this was Catholicism declared religion as majority of frenchman and pope accepted land taken by church was truly lost The only issue is Pope Prius Vlll denounced this and in response Napoleon brought him to France and put him almost under house arrest -
Consul for Life
Napoleon didn’t just want to Be First Consul he wanted a life time guarantee so he named himself consul for life -
Napoleonic Code
This was a book of all at the time current laws, reforms, and regulations. This was one of the longest and influential reform he establishments. It was something that as he conquered places the code spread and it spread outside of the French empire. Some of the reforms and laws where: religious toleration, abolishment of feudalism, equality for men, women lost all rights they had just earned in French Revolution, he valued order/ authority over individual rights -
Declared Self Emperor
As Napoleon gained more power and control he decided to declare himself emperor of the French empire. It was a big ceremony where he invited the Pope to Paris for his coronation. Instead of the Pope placing the crown on his head he took the crown out of the Popes hand and crowned himself to show he owned throne and him alone. There wasn’t much if any opposing him as he became Emperor as people supported him -
Battle of Trafalgar
This battle was fought between Napoleon (France) vs Admiral Horatio Nelson ( British) in southwest coast of Spain. This was a navy vs navy with Britain crushing France
This was a failure on Napoleons side as for the British fleet destroyed their fleet. Also to the result of the loss Napoleon instated the Continental system which didn’t allow the British and French to trade, exchange goods, or have the French people who were in Britain stranded. -
Abolished Holy Roman Empire
Napoleon and the French abolished the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 when the current emperor stepped down. The Holy Roman Empire land was then mostly turned into Confederation of the Rhine -
Continental System
Napoleon waned to invade England and he attempted at The Battle of Trafalgar but he lost this battle After he lost this battle he set up the Continental system which waged economic warfare. The continental system blocked European goods from British goods. Britain that responded by blocking European ports that kept European people and goods from leaving or coming into Britain -
Resistance in Spain
Once Spain was under French control the French influence in Spain became less and less. Napoleon wanted to set reforms and undermine Spanish Catholic Church, unfortunately spain stayed loyal to former king. In response king sent invaders who where brutal and this only caused more resistance from Spain and spiked Spanish Nationalism.Guerrilla warfare: Created by Spanish patriots, these patriots basically did hit and run raids against French,these raids included ambushing supply trains and troops -
Invasion of Russia
In July of 1812 Napoleon decided to start the Trek to invade Russia. He took his grand army that eventually equaled around 600k soldiers to Russia. Russia didn’t meet the army at any border but kept moving towards the heart Of Russia and along the way destroyed everything in their path .As fall and winter approach quickly the Russians beat France at Borodino .As French retreat out of Russia with only 100k only 10k make it out alive after brutal winter, starvation, and disease. -
Battle of Nations at Leipzig
When France was weak after the Russia disaster at Moscow Russia,Ritalin, Austria, and Prussia formed an alliance together. This alliance was able to defeat Napoleon and his army at Battle of the Nations at Leipzig As a result Napoleon Abdicates and exiled to Elba -
Abdication
When Napoleon lost at Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 after a year he abdicates or steps down and is exiled to Elba. He then agin abdicates in 1815 after he loses at Waterloo and again exiled to a different island St.Helena -
Hundred Days
This is a period from March 20, 1815 through July 8, 1815. This period was from when Napoleon arrives back in Paris after returning from Elba to when he is agin exiled to St.Helena. In between he regained power of France Empire from Louis XV|| who had taken over. His final battle was at Waterloo where he lost on June 18, 1815 and was abdicated about a month later to St.Helena -
Waterloo
This was a battle between the 4 allies versus France. This was fought only 100 days after he regained power. In was fought in Waterloo, Belgium and France was quickly crushed by Duke of Wellington and General Blücher As a result Napoleon was abdicated and exiled to St.Helena and would not return