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Becoming an officer in the French army
At age nine Napoleon was sent to France to be trained for a military career. When the revolution began he was a lieutenant at twenty years old. Napoleon's favored the Jacobins and republican rule. He found the conflicting ideas and personalities of the French Revolution confusing. -
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The Grand Empire
When napoleon had a free chance to reorganize Europe and numerous relatives to install thrones of his satellite kingdoms. Napoleon's empire collapsed because of the Continental System, the Peninsular War, and the invasion of Russia. These events are widely viewed as three major mistakes that led to the weakening of his rule in Europe.(1797-1807) -
Military campaign in Egypt and Syria
When the revolution began he was a lieutenant at twenty years old. Napoleon's favored the Jacobins and republican rule. He found the conflicting ideas and personalities of the French Revolution confusing. -
Coup d’état
Brumaire overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and substituted the Consulate, making way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte. -
Napoleonic code
The Napoleonic code undid some reforms of the French Revolution. Women, for example, lost most of their newly gained rights and could not exercise the rights of citizenship. Male heads of households regained complete authority over their wives and children. Again, Napoleon valued order and authority over individual rights -
The Battle of Trafalgar
With only a small army, britain relied on its sea power to stop napoleon's drive to rule the continent. In 1805, napoleon prepared to invade england. But at the battle of Trafalgar, fought off the southwest coast of Spain, British Admiral Horatio Nelson smashed the french fleet. With an invasion ruled out, Napoleon struck at Britain's lifeblood its commerce. -
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The Battle of Wagram
It was a military engagement of the Napoleonic wars and ended in a decisive victory for emperor Napoleon l’s french and allied army against the Austrian army under the command of archduke Charles of Austria-teschen -
Napoleans exile to St. Helena
Napoleon Exiled to St. Helena, 1815. After his defeat at the Battle of Leipzig. Napoleon retreated to Paris where he was forced to renounce his throne in April 1814. The European powers exiled him to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean. -
Napoleons Return
The Hundred Days marked the period between Napoleon's return from exile on the island of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 -
The Battle of Waterloo
Napoleon triumph was short lived. His star soared for only 100 days while the allies reassembled their forces. The opposing armies met near the town of Waterloo in Belgium. British forces under the Duke of Wellington and a Prussian army commanded by General Blucher crushed the french in an agonizing day-long battle. -
Invasion of Russia
The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 and in France as the Russian Campaign, began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army. -
Napoleon's exile to Elba
in this day in 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba.
