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During Italian Campaign Napoleon led his army to invade Italy and conquered most of the northern area. -
Napoleon attempted to disrupt British trade in India with the Egyptian campaign. Napoleon failed, but managed to hide it and convince the French he was victorious. While the battle was disastrous, this caused Napoleon to move up in military rank and create the Consulate. -
Napoleon overthrew the weak directory and set up the Consulate, a three man governing board. The consulate replaced the failed directory and created a controlled government. -
Napoleon created the Banque de France to help France recover from its national debt and to grow the economy. -
The Concordat was an agreement between Napoleon and the Church that put the church under state control while giving Catholics religious freedom. Revolutionaries fought this while French Catholics welcomed it. -
After creating the Consulate, Napoleon named himself Consul for Life. This led to his title of emperor. -
The Napoleonic Code is the civil code of France. It outlines the laws of France in one document. This took away women’s rights and made mens’s authority over their family stronger. -
In 1804, Napoleon decides to declare himself emperor and his wife, Josephine, empress. This both affects the world negatively (war, death, etc) and positively (US gains land, new legal code, etc.) -
In the Battle of Trafalgar, the British naval fleet defeated a combined fleet of the French and Spanish off the coast of Spain. -
Napoleon set of the Confederation of the Rhine and forced the Holy Roman Emperor to abdicate his position. -
Napoleon created the Continental System to isolate Britain from Europe. He proclaimed that ships stopping in British territory for trade could be seized. This eventually led to the Penisular Campaign -
After Portugal did not comply with the Continental System, the French asked Spain to aid in invading Portugal. The Spanish refused to comply and proceeded to rebel after Napoleon’s brother was put into power. Eventually the French were pushed out of Spain. -
The invasion of Russia led to thousands of French deaths from the weather climate and little resources available. The Russians drew the French into Moscow and deprived them of resources. -
At the Battle of Leipzig, Napoleon is defeated by troops of Russians, Prussians, Swedes, and Austrians and sent into exile at Elba. -
Napoleon abdicated after his loss at Leipzig. Louis XVIII took over the throne. The French were not happy about this and feared the return of pre-revolution times. -
The time period where Louis XVIII fled the capital and Napoleon returned up until Napoleon’s defeat was one hundred days long. It last from March 20th until June 28th. -
At Waterloo, Napoleon was defeated by the Seventh Coalition and was exiled again to St. Helena.