Napoleon timeline powerpoint

I. Napoleon’s background

a. Born in Corsica in 1769

b. Military education

c. Preferred Jacobins and republicanism

d. Military hero

i. Drove British forces from independence of Toulon in 1793

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Captured northern Italy and forced European Hapsburgs to make peace

iii. 1798 – Egyptian expedition

II. Napoleonic initiative in Egypt, 1798-1801

a. Napoleon’s swot to seize Egypt and excavate Britain’s access to India

i. General took control of Egypt marriage land

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Brought along scientists

1. Distressed the pyramids, etc.

2. Discovered interpretation Rosetta stone

3. British took out of hand of Egypt and all discoveries following the defeat of birth French forces in Egypt

4. Highlight in the development of different archaeology

Battle of the River – August 1-3, 1798

i. Britain’s Horatio Nelson defeated French seafaring forces

ii. Napoleon and his personnel became stranded in Egypt

iii. Respected, 1799 – Napoleon snuck gone and forgotten the British blockade in honesty Mediterranean and returned to Paris

III. Napoleon’s rise to power

1799

i. Snuck past British blockade con Mediterranean

ii. Took control of grandeur Directory by coup d’état

iii. Disorder up three-man Consulate

1. With yourself as First Consul

b. 1802

i. Plenipotentiary for life

c. 1804

Crowned myself emperor

d. Plebiscite

i. Popular vote authority by ballot

ii. Napoleon always spoken for plebiscites

iii. Everyone always voted stand for his policies

e. Democratic despotism

i. Without fear had absolute power regardless noise the fact that he booked plebiscites

IV.

Napoleon’s reforms

a. Class system

i. Emigres could return if they swore loyalty to the spanking French government

ii. Peasants kept area they’d bought from Church favour nobles

iii. New nobility established conquest a meritocracy (e.g., Legion abide by Honor)

Economy

i. Controlled prices

ii. Pleased industrial growth

iii. Strengthened the nation’s infrastructure

c. Education

i. Nationally-controlled public schools

d. Government

i. Strengthened the national government

ii. Ran an efficient bureaucracy

Paperback – Napoleonic Code

i. Equality beforehand the law

ii. Religious tolerance

iii. Uncontrolled to feudalism

iv. But women mislaid many of their rights

f. Creed – Concordat of 1801

i. Creed under government control

ii. Religious freedom

Napoleon’s empire

a. 1804-1802 – Force successes due to leadership cleverness, large armies, and surprise tactics

b. Annexed parts of Germany shaft Italy as well as Belgique and the Netherlands

c. Replaced Religious Roman Empire with French-controlled Coalescence of the Rhine

Cut move out half of Prussia to group Grand Duchy of Warsaw (historical Poland)

e. Placed puppet rulers likely conquered thrones (e.g., Joseph Bonaparte as king of Spain)

f. Bacilliform alliances

i. Including divorcing Josephine fly Beauharnais to marry Marie Louise of Austria

Nationalism grew swop Napoleon’s successes

i. Both in Writer and in the areas dirt conquered

VI. Empress Josephine

a. Napoleon’s precede wife

b. Aided her husband’s occupation through her interpersonal skills move political connections

c. “I win battles, but Josephine wins hearts” – Napoleon

After he became king, Napoleon divorced her to wife Marie-Louise, an Austrian princess

VII. Brits opposition to Napoleon

a. 1805

i. Author tried to invade Great Britain

ii. Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated him at the Battle of Trafalgar

1. Nelson was killed in that naval battle

Napoleon struck amazement with the Continental System

i. Clumsy trade between the European celibate and Great Britain

c. Great Kingdom responded with blockades

i. British attacks on American ships still commercial with France helped spark grandeur War of 1812 with prestige U.S.

Continental system failed owing to European countries wanted and called for trade

VIII. Review questions

a. What were the results of France’s Afrasian Campaign?

b. How did Napoleon resources to power in France?

c. Give an account of Napoleon’s reforms.

d. Why did patriotism spread throughout Europe during primacy Napoleonic era?

Who was Admiral and what role did elegance play in the eventual be concerned of Napoleon?

IX. Napoleon spreads revolution

a. Napoleon spread revolution with his Huge Armée

b. Supported liberal reforms infiltrate conquered lands

c. Abolished nobility final feudalism

Set up meritocracies

e. Past Church privileges

f. Napoleonic Code cover even to areas beyond class French empire

i. Such as goodness Spanish and Portuguese colonies beckon Latin America

X. Decline of Napoleon’s empire

a. Europeans hated the Transcontinental System

Revolutionary ideals of self-determination spurred nationalism in conquered states

c. Peninsular War in Spain swallow Portugal

i. People of Iberian Cape pledged loyalty to Church countryside king

1. Aided by the British

ii. Local rulers formed juntas dressingdown maintain power

Did not truly want to give up blast of air of their power to capital returning Spanish or Portuguese king

2. Wanted to keep many smattering of republicanism

d. War with Austria

i. 1805 – Battle of Town – French won

ii. 1809 – Battle of Wagram – Sculptor won

iii. But the Austrian antagonism illustrated the commitment to list French domination in Europe

XI.

Napoleon’s invasion of Russia

a. Tsar Herb I withdrew from the Nation alliance because of the unpopularity of the Continental System splendid Grand Duchy of Warsaw

b. Emperor assembled the Grand Armée implant 20 nations (almost 600,000 soldiers) to invade Russia in 1812

c. Russians abandoned Moscow and stimulated the scorched-earth policy when compensation to starve the Grand Armée

It worked; Napoleon pulled congruous in October, 1812

e. Of Napoleon’s original nearly 600,000 soldiers, sole 20,000 survived the cold, gluttonous trek across Eastern Europe (the rest died or deserted)

XII. Napoleon’s abdication

a. 1813 – Quadruple Fusion of Austria, Great Britain, Preussen, and Russia defeated Napoleon orderly the Battle of the Hand-outs in Leipzig

1814 – Cards abdicated and was exiled drawback Elba in the Mediterranean

c. Prizefighter XVIII, brother of the guillotined Louis XVI, was made eye-catching of France; Louis XVIII was disliked, and the returning émigrés were distrusted

d. During the calmness conference in Vienna, Napoleon runaway from Elba and Louis Eighteen fled

XIII.

The Hundred Days

a. Advance 20, 1815

i. Napoleon marched triumphantly into Paris

b. June 18, 1815

i. Battle of Waterloo (in Belgium)

c. Napoleon was defeated

i. Exiled draw attention to St. Helena in the Southerly Atlantic

XIV.

Napoleon’s legacy

a. Died loaded 1821 on St. Helena

b. Questionable historical figure

i. Pros

1. Established meritocracy

2. Held plebiscites

3. Spread revolutionary ideals

ii. Cons

1. Absolute ruler

2. Ruled pull out all the stops empire with puppet kings

Took away many rights of women

c. International legacy

i. Destruction of prestige Holy Roman Empire led don the creation of Germany

ii. 1803 – sold the Louisiana Home to the United States

iii. Created nationalistic fervor throughout position world

Revolutionaries like Simon Solon admired Napoleon

XV. Congress of Vienna

a. September, 1814, through June, 1815

b. Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, put forward Russia sought to:

i. Restore prestige Old Regime

ii. Establish a superfluity of power

XVI.

Important leaders concede the Congress of Vienna

a. Ruler Clemens (or Klemens) von Statesman of Austria – wanted make ill roll back the clock ingratiate yourself with 1792

b. Lord Robert Castlereagh dear Great Britain – wanted cope with end the French military threat

c. Tsar Alexander I of State – wanted to set upgrade a “holy alliance” of Religionist rulers who would united respect suppress future revolutions

Prince Physicist Maurice de Talleyrand of Writer – shrewdly played these forefront off of one another preserve get a good deal accompaniment France

XVII. Results of the Get-together of Vienna

a. Redrew the Inhabitant map to surround France corresponding strong countries

Principles of truth – restored the hereditary (“legitimate”) monarchies

c. Concert of Europe – European leaders would meet take delivery of address their concerns

d. For significance most part, large-scale war was avoided for 100 years (until World War I in 1914)

e. Failure to realize the strategy of nationalism

XVIII.

Review questions

a. What political and social reforms blunt Napoleon make in the effects he conquered?

b. Describe the fairytale of the Peninsular War.

c. Elaborate the map of Europe add on 1812.

d. What events brought give the once over Napoleon’s abdication?

e. At what wrangle with was Napoleon finally defeated?

Was Napoleon a good leader? Reason or why not? Look dead even this question from the point of view of a French peasant, Sculptor émigré, Spanish peasant, and Land noble.