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Italian Campaign
GREEN = SUCCESS The campaign fought by French General Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy in 1796–1797 helped end the French Revolutionary Wars in favor of France. -
Egyptian Campaign
YELLOW = BOTH The Egyptian Campaign was a military adventure by Napoleon, who wanted to liberate Egypt from Mameluke rule and also threaten Britain's interests in India. Napoleon had an army of 3,000 troops and it increased and decreased as the war went on, losing his commander Jean-Baptiste Kleber in Cairo. -
Consulate
GREEN = SUCCESS The consulate was the highest power of government in France that made decisions on causing rebellion and normalizing relations within the church .Napoleon assumed the position of First Consul and obtained near dictatorial powers. The Consulate made government in France more efficient and abolished most of the remnants of class and privilege. -
Banque de France
GREEN = SUCCESS The Bank of France, headquartered in Paris, is the central bank of France. Founded in 1712, it began as a private institution for managing state debts and issuing notes. It is responsible for the accounts of the French government, managing the accounts and the facilitation of payments for the Treasury and some public companies. During the time Napoleon’s reign the bank was founded in an attempt to fix debt and it allowed many monopolies to take place. -
Concordat of 1801
GREEN = SUCCESS The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII. It remained in effect until 1905. It brought national reconciliation between revolutionaries and Catholics and solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France, with most of its civil status restored. This resolved the hostility that French Catholics had against the revolutionary state. -
Consul for life
GREEN = SUCCESS In August 1802, Napoleon proclaimed himself First Consul for Life. He wanted to keep control forever. A new constitution of his own devising legislated a succession to rule for his son (even though he had no children) and he had taken the major steps in creating a new regime in his own image. There was no doubt that the Revolution was over. -
Napoleonic Code
GREEN = SUCCESS The 1804 Napoleonic Code, this was the civilian codes for the French, which influenced civil law codes across the world, replaced the fragmented laws of pre-revolutionary France, recognizing the principles of civil liberty, equality before the law, although not for woman. -
Declared self emperor
YELLOW = BOTH In 1804 In the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Napoleon I, Emperor of the French. He is the first Frenchman to be crowned as Emperor in over a millennium. The ceremony was lavish and it was witnessed by thousands of guests, including Bolivar, the great liberator of Latin America. Napoleon was only 35 years old. He was handed the crown by the Pope -
Battle of Trafalgar
RED = FAILURE Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition . As part of Napoleon's plans to invade England, the French and Spanish fleets combined to take control of the English Channel and provide the Grande Armée safe passage -
Abolished Holy Roman Empire
GREEN = SUCCESS It was the end of a thousand-year empire since it had nominally been established back in the year 800, when Charlemagne was crowned emperor in Rome. On this day in 1806, Emperor Francis II (Empress Maria Theresa’s grandson) abdicated and abolished the Holy Roman Empire. -
Continental System
YELLOW = BOTH The Continental Blockade or Continental System, was the foreign policy of Napoleon against the United Kingdom during the Napoleonic Wars. As a response to the naval blockade of the French coasts enacted by the British government on May 16,1806, Napoleon issued the Berlin Decree on November 21,1806 which brought into effect a large barrier against British trade. -
Resistance in Spain
RED = FAILURE Napoleon replaced the King of Spain with his own brother, Joseph Bonaparte. Joseph introduced unpopular reforms in Spain, undermining the Spanish Catholic Church. The Spanish people rose up in resistance and were brutally put down by French forces. -
Abdication
RED = FAILURE Abdication is the act of formally relinquishing monarchical authority. While some cultures have viewed abdication as an extreme abandonment of duty, in other, abdication was a regular event, and helped maintain stability during political succession. In this case, Napoleon stepped down from leader and was exiled for the first time. -
Invasion of Russia
RED = FAILURE The French invasion of Russia, begun by Napoleon to force Russia back into the Continental blockade of the United Kingdom. On June 24,1812 the first wave of the multinational Grande Armée crossed the border into Russia with around 400,000–450,000 soldiers, Russian field forces amounted to around 180,000–200,000.They returned home with only 10,000 men. -
Battle of Nations at Leipzig
RED = FAILURE Battle of Leipzig, also called Battle of the Nations, (Oct. 16–19, 1813), decisive defeat for Napoleon, resulting in the destruction of what was left of French power in Germany and Poland. The battle was fought at Leipzig, in Saxony, between approximately 185,000 French and other troops under Napoleon, and approximately 320,000 allied troops. -
Hundred Days
RED = FAILURE The Hundred Days War , also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition, marked the period between Napoleon's return from eleven months of banishment on the island of Elba to Paris on March 20, 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on July 8, 1815 (a period of 110 days). -
Waterloo
RED = FAILURE The Battle of Waterloo was fought on June 18, 1815, near Waterloo in Belgium, part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. Napoleon's last battle. A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition, a British-led coalition consisting of units from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick, and Nassau, under the command of the Duke of Wellington