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Italian Campaign green
Using lightning attacks and the advantage of surprise, Napoleon first defeated Austria's allies in the region. Soon the various republics of Italy, from Naples to Rome, surrendered to French control. -
Egyptian campaign red
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, and to establish scientific enterprise in the region. The campaign ended in defeat for Napoleon, and the withdrawal of French troops from the region. -
Banque de France green
Napoleon Bonaparte created the Banque de France to recover the economy after the strong recession of the revolutionary period. This new institution was charged with issuing notes payable to bearer on sight, in return for discounting of trade bills. -
Concordat of 1801 yellow
Concordat of 1801, 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. They settled the arguments and differences that had happened in the years before. -
Consul for life yellow
By extension, the term The Consulate also refers to this period of French history. During this period, Napoleon Bonaparte, as First Consul (Premier consul), established himself as the head of a more authoritarian, autocratic, and centralized republican government in France while not declaring himself sole ruler. -
Consulate green
The Consulate was the top-level Government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of Brumaire on 10 November 1799 until Napoleon took over power starting the Napoleonic Empire on 18 May 1804. By extension, the term The Consulate also refers to this period of French history. -
Napoleonic Code yellow
There became new branches of law, including commercial and criminal law, and divided civil law into categories of property and family. The Code Also made the authority of men over their families stronger, deprived women of any individual rights, and reduced the rights of illegitimate children, which was not fair. -
Napoleon declares himself Emperor green
Napoleon was crowned Emperor of the French on Sunday, December 2, 1804 at Notre-Dame de Paris in Paris. It was a grand event but no one seemed to care about all off the Spending. -
Battle of the Trafalgar red
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement between the British Royal Navy and the fleets of the French Lead by Napoleon himself. This battle ended up being one of Napoleons defeats as the British Royal Navy were to win -
Continental System yellow
During the Napoleonic wars, the blockade designed by Napoleon to paralyze Great Britain through the destruction of British commerce. -
Abolished Holy Roman Empire green
The empire was dissolved on 6 August 1806, when the last Holy Roman Emperor Francis II abdicated, following a military defeat by the French under Napoleon at Austerlitz. The Holy Roman Empire was ended. -
Resistance in Spain green
The war began when the French and Spanish armies invaded and occupied Portugal in 1807 by transiting through Spain, and it escalated in 1808 after Napoleonic France had occupied Spain -
Invasion of Russia red
The Grande Armée, led by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, crossed the Neman River, invading Russia from present-day Poland. The result was a disaster for the French. Which caused them to retreat in defeat to France and Napoleon was no more. -
Battle of Nations at Leipzig red
Battle of Leipzig, also called Battle of the Nations, a decisive defeat for Napoleon, resulting in the destruction of what was left of French power in Germany and Poland. After his retreat from Russia in 1812, Napoleon mounted a new offensive in Germany in 1813. -
Abdication red
Napoleon was forced to abdicate in April 1814 after his unsuccessful invasion of Russia resulted in a broad European alliance against him. -
Waterloo red
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. A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the British-led coalition. The battle marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars. -
Hundred Days green
The Hundred Days War, also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition, marked the period between Napoleon's return from eleven months of exile on the island of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815.