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Napoeon is born
He was a Frech milatary and political leader. Napoleon was born in Ajaccio, France. -
Storming of Bastile
Occurred in Paris, France.
Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille.
The storming of Bastile was the beginning of the French Revolution. -
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Battle of Toulon
Napolean won his first military reputation.
Toulon was liberated and everyone was looking for Napoleon to congratulate.
He was promoted to the rank of General on24, 1793. -
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Egyptian Campaign
Bonaparte captured Alexandria.
10,000 Mamelukes drawn up on horseback across the sands.
Bonaparte and 35,000 soldiers were trapped in Egypt. -
18 Brumaire Coup
Brought General Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France.
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First consul for Life
Napoleon took power in a coup d'état in 1799 and installed himself as First Consul. In 1804 he made himself emperor of the French people. He fought a series of wars that involved complex coalitions for and against him. -
Napoleonic code
The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs should go to the most qualified. -
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement fought by the Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars. -
Battle of Austerlitz
The Battle of Austerlitz, was one of Napoleon's "most impressive" victories and saw him inflict a crushing defeat on an Austro-Russian army, and at the same time knocking Austrian out of the War of the Third Coalition. -
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Continential System
The Continential System was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars.The Continental System hurt English industries. It helped encourage the Luddite protest movement against unemployment in England. -
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Peninsular War
The Peninsular war was a military conflict between Napoleon's empire and the allied powers of Spain, Britain and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula. After six years, the Peninsular War was over. -
Invation of Russia
The French Invasion of Russia, was also known in Russia as the Patriotic War. Napoleon assembled Italians, Poles, German, and French, more than 600,000 men from every corner of his empire. After a long battle the Russian's withdew, leaving Napoleon with a victory. -
Retreat from moscow
After waiting a month for a surrender from Russia that never came, Napoleon, faced with a bad winter, was forced to order his starving army out of Moscow. -
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Battle of Leipzig
The battle developed when Napoleon seized the Leipzig position, intending to divide his opponents and attack them one by one. It took place at Leipzig, in Saxony. -
Exile of Elba
Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. -
Exile to St. Helena
To keep Napoleon from coming back the European powers exiled him to the island of St. Helena. -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was a showdown between two of history’s great military leaders. -
Napoleans Death
He died in Longwood, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Napolean was 51 years old.
