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Napoleon launches a Coup d’Etat on the weak & corrupt Directory.
coup d'état that overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and substituted the Consulate, making way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte. -
Creation of the Napoleonic Code
as the new emperor of France, began the arduous task of revising France's outdated and muddled legal system. He established a special commission -
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Napoleon as Emperor
French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. -
Napoleon crowns himself emperor.
proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. -
Defeat in Russian Campaign
Tsar Alexander I, supposedly allied with Napoleon, refused to be part of the continental blockade of British goods any longer. -
Napoleon exiled
abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. -
Battle of Waterloo
Napoleon's French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher. The decisive battle of its age, it concluded a war that had raged for 23 years, ended French attempts to dominate Europe, and destroyed Napoleon's imperial power forever.