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The French campaign in Egypt and Syria was Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in the Ottoman territories of Egypt and Syria, proclaimed to defend French trade interests, seek further direct alliances with Tipu Sultan, weaken Britain's access to India, and to establish scientific enterprise in the region. (red)
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The Consulate made the government in France more efficient and abolished most of the remnants of class and privilege. (green)
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The Banque De France was actually first initiated and created by Napoleon Bonaparte on the 18th of January in 1800. Bonaparte wanted to grow the economy and restore it in the aftermath of the recession that occurred in the Revolutionary period. (yellow)
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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. (green)
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An agreement reached on July 15, 1801, between Napoleon Bonaparte and papal and clerical representatives in both Rome and Paris, defining the status of the Roman Catholic Church in France and ending the breach caused by the church reforms and confiscations enacted during the French Revolution. (yellow)
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Napoleon became first consul, making him France's leading political figure. (yellow)
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The Napoleonic Code, officially the Civil Code of the French is the French civil code established under the French Consulate in 1804 and still in force, although frequently amended. It was drafted by a commission of four eminent jurists and entered into force on 21 March 1804. (green)
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Napoleon was crowned in the presence of Pope Pius VII, his supporters, doubters and the public. After the consecration, the anointing of a monarch with holy oil, Napoleon took his crown from the Pope and placed it upon his own head. Napoleon then crowned his wife, Josephine, Empress of France. (yellow)
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The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement 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. (red).
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The Continental System or Continental Blockade was the foreign policy of Napoleon Bonaparte against the United Kingdom during the Napoleonic Wars. (green)
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The Holy Roman Empire had survived over a thousand years when it was finally destroyed by Napoleon and the French in 1806. (green)
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On February 16, 1808, under the pretext of sending reinforcements to the French army occupying Portugal, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain. Thus began the Peninsular War. (red)
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The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 and in France as the Russian campaign, began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian Army. (red)
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The Battle of Leipzig or Battle of the Nations was fought from 16 to 19 October 1813, at Leipzig, Saxony. This resulted in a Napoleon defeat. (red)
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Napoleon's broken forces gave up and Napoleon offered to step down in favor of his son. (yellow)
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The Hundred Days War, also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition, marked the period between Napoleon's return from exile on the island of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815. (yellow)
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The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in Belgium, part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time. (green)
