Napoleon

  • 1785

    promoted to lieutenit
  • 1795

    Defends national convention from royalists
  • 1799

    seizes control of government
  • 1803

    sells louisiana territory to the united states
  • 1804

    makes himself emperer of france
  • 1805

    conquers country after country
  • 1806

    blockades british shipping to the continent
  • 1808

    sends army to portugal
  • 1812

    invades russia and loses 400000 men
  • 1813

    defeated at leipzig
  • 1814

    gives up throne and is exiled
  • 1815

    returns to france and raises another army and suffers defeat at waterloo