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Italian Campaign (yellow)
Conquered most of Northern Italy for France
Developed like for power
Won a conclusive victory
Helped secure the Mediterranean Sea for allied shipping -
Egyptian Campaign(red)
Between French troops when the French Fleet was destroyed by Lord Nelson and the British Navy at Aboukir in the Battle of the Nile
Egyptian Campaign acquired legendary status -
Consulate (yellow)
Made government in France more efficient and abolished most of the remnants of class and privilege
Had full power
Elections were ended
Assumed the position of First Consul
Obtained near dictatorial powers -
Banque de France(yellow)
Restore confidence in the French banking system
Foster economic recovery after the strong recession of the revolutionary period
Headquarters are in Paris
Granted the exclusive privilege to issue bank notes in Paris for a period of 15 years
Extend to cover the whole of France in 1848
Statutes approved in 1973 placed greater power with the banks general council
Gave the French minister of finance control over banque de France’s
Banks was privatized in 1993 -
Concordat of 1801 ( yellow)
Napoleon controlled prices
Encouraged new industry, built roads and canals
Set up system of public schools under strict government control
Same time, Napoleon backed off from some of the Revolution ps social reforms
Made peace with the Catholic Church in the Concordat of 1801
Concordat kept the church under state control
Recognized religious freedom for Catholics
Revolutionaries who opposed the church denounced the agreement
Catholic welcomed it -
Consul for life(green)
Declared that France had finished with the romance of the Revolution
He helped overthrow the weak Directory and set up a three man governing board
Napoleon soon took the title Forst Consul
180p0, forced Spain to return Louisiana Territory to France
1802, Napoleon had himself named consul for life -
Declared self emperor (green)
Napoleon acquired enough power to assume title of emperor of the French
Invite pope to preside over his coronation in Paris
Napoleon took the crown from pope’s hand and put it on his own head
Showed that he owed his throne to no one but himself
Napoleon held a plebiscite
French strongly supported him even after he had assumed absolute power as emperor -
Napoleonic Code(yellow)
Started equality for all citizens before the law, religious toleration, abolition of feudalism Same time, undid reforms of the French Revolution.
Woman lost most of their newly gained rights and could not exercise the rights of citizenship -
Battle of Trafalgar(green)
British navy defeated the French
Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar ensured that Napoleon would never invade Britain. -
Abolished Holy Roman Empire (Green)
Created a vast French empire
Redrew the map of Europe
Annexed into his empire the Netherlands, Belgium, and parts of Italy and Germany
Abolished the tottering Holy Roman Empire and created a 38 member Confederation of the Rhine under French protection
Cut Prussia territory in half
Turning part of old Poland into the Grand Duchy of Warsaw
Controlled much of Europe
Napoleon’s successes boosted the spirit of nationalism
Great victory parades filled the streets of Paris with cheering crowds -
Resistance in Spain (red)
-Introduced reforms that to undermine the Spanish Catholic Church
-Spaniards remained loyal to their former king
-Well armed French forces responded with brutal repression
-French inflamed Spanish nationalism
-Spanish patriots conducted a campaign of guerrilla warfare against the French
- small band of guerrillas ambushed French supply trains and troops before retreating into the countryside
- attack kept large numbers of French soldiers tied down in Spain when Napoleon needed them elsewhere -
Continental system (red)
Waged economic warfare
Closed European Ports to British goods
Blockade involves shutting off ports to keep people or supples from moving in or out
Britain and France seized neutral ships suspected of trading with the other side
British attacks on American ships spread anger in the U.S. and triggered the War of 1812
At the end the Continental system failed to bring Britain to its knee
British exports declined
Britain’s powerful navy kept trade routes open to the Americas and India -
Invasion of Russia(red)
Failed to conquer Russia in 1812
Faulty logistics, poor discipline, disease, the weather
Napoleon invaded Russia
To avoid battles with Napoleon Russians retreated eastward
Burning crops and villages as they went
Scorched earth policy left the French hungry and cold as winter came
Napoleon entered Moscow in September
His triumph was short lived -
Battle of Nations at Leipzig(red)
Defeat for Napoleon
Resulting in the destruction of what was left of French power in Germany and Poland
The biggest battle of the Napoleonic Wars
Known as Battle of Nation because terms of numbers of troops engaged and amount of artillery -
Hundred days(yellow)
Marched into Paris with his supporters
Escaped from exile in Elba a month earlier this
Hundred days would be brought to end only by the battle of Waterloo in June
Final scene of Napoleon’s and France’s -
Waterloo (red)
Triumph was short lived
Opposing armies met near the town of Waterloo in Belgium
British forces under the Duke of Wellington and a Prussian army commanded by General Blücher crushed the French in an agonizing day long battle
Napoleon was forced to abdicate and to go into exile on St. Helena, a lonely island in the South Atlantic
He would not return -
Abdication (green)
Recognized Louis XVIII as king of France
Restoration of Louis XVIII did not go smoothly
Agreed to accept the Napoleonic Code and honor the land settlements made during the Revolution
Many émigrés rushed back to France bent on revenge
Economic depression and the fear of a return to the old regime helped rekindle loyalty to Napoleon
Allies gathered in Vienna for a peace conference
Napoleon escaped the island exile and returned to France
Louis XVIII fled
Napoleon entered Paris in Triumph