History 2

By David Huynh

  • Italian Campaign

    Italian Campaign
    In the Italian campaign, the French overcame steep odds to win one of the most significant victories in history. Operations began in April 1796, when Napoleon led a numerically inferior, poorly supplied, and irregularly paid army into Northern Italy. ✅

  • Egyptian Campaign

    Egyptian Campaign
    It was an expedition led by Napoleon to disrupt British trade with India.❌ It eventually led to defeat for Napoleon.

  • Consulate

    Consulate
    formed after Napoleon over overthrew the weak Directory.
    Shortly after Napoleon had named himself consul for life.✅ Success

  • Banque de France

    Banque de France
    Napoleon Bona­parte created the Banque de France to foster eco­nomic recovery after the strong recession of the revolu­tionary period.✅

  • Concordat of 1801

    Concordat of 1801
    This kept the Church under state control but also recognized religious freedom for Catholics. Revolutionaries who opposed the church denounced the agreement, but Catholics welcomed it.✅ Success.

  • Consul for life

    Consul for life
    in 1802, Napoleon declared he was consul for life✅

  • Napoleonic Code

    Napoleonic Code
    Napoleon's new code of laws. It embodied Enlightenment principles. It also undid some reforms of the French Revolution.✅ Success

  • Resistance in Spain

    Resistance in Spain
    Most Spaniards rejected French rule and fought a bloody war to oust them. The war on the peninsula lasted until the Sixth Coalition defeated Napoleon in 1814.❌ Failure

  • Declared self emperor

    Declared self emperor
    During the Coronation he snatched the crown away from the pope to crown himself.✴️

  • Battle of Trafalgar

    Battle of Trafalgar
    Napoleon had prepared to invade England, but this battle fought on the southwest coast of Spain, resulted in the French Fleet getting smashed.❌ Failure

  • Holy Roman Empire Abolished

    Holy Roman Empire Abolished
    After abolishing the Holy Roman Empire, he created the Confederation of the Rhine under French Protection.✅

  • Continental System

    Continental System
    How Napoleon waged economic warfare. It closed European ports. A blockade involving shutting off ports to keep people or supplies from moving in or out.
    This failed to bring Britain to it's knees.❌
    Failure.

  • Invasion of Russia

    Invasion of Russia
    The invasion of Russia effectively halted Napoleon's march across Europe, and resulted in his first exile, to the Mediterranean island of Elba. terrible and damaging event.❌

  • Battle of Nations at Leipzig

    Battle of Nations at Leipzig
    The unified armed forces of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden prevailed in a decisive victory over Napoleon and his allies on German soil.❌ Defeat

  • Hundred Days

    Hundred Days
    This was the period of Napoleon's return from exile, and the Second Restoration of King Louis XVIII on July 8,1815.✅ Success

  • Waterloo

    Waterloo
    A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition.❌ Defeat

  • Abdication

    Abdication
    After his many defeats in war, the victors exiled him to Elba, an island in the Mediterranean.
    They recognized Louis XVIII, as king of france.❌