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Battle of Toulon
The most mortifying defeat to the British ever, as they fell to the Franco-Spanish fleet successfullly ending the British bockade. -
Napoleon's Birth
Napoleon was born in Corsica -
The Start of the French Revolution
3rd estate storms bastille for gun powder -
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The Reign of Terror
A period of violence that occured after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins, and the Jacobins. -
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Egyptian campaign
The French attempt to exert influence over Egypt was due to economics, a political need to weaken Britan and the personal needs of General Napoleon Bonaparte, who saw the shadow of unployment - and a loss of influence - looming as his armies in Italy were nearing the end of thier successfull struggles against Austria -
18 Brumaire coup
Brought General Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul of France, and ended the French Revolution -
Fisrt Consul for Life plebiscite
Napoleon Bonaparte, as First Consul, had established himself as the head of a more conservative, authoritarian, autocratic, centralized repubican government in France while not declaring himself head of state. -
Napoleonic Code
The French civil code established under Napoleon in 1804. -
Napoleon's Coronation
The instantiation of modern empire, representing a "transparently masterminded piece of modern propaganda." -
Battle of Trafalgar
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 -
Battle of Austerlitz
One of Napoleon's greatest victories, where the French Empire effectively crushed the Third Coalition -
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Continental System
The foreign policy of Napoleon of France in his struggle against the United Kingdom of Great Britan and Ireland during the Napoleonic wars. -
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Peninsular War
A military conflict between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars -
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Invasion of Russia
When Napoleon's army crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army. -
Retreat from Moscow
One month after Napoleon Bonaparte's massive invading force entered a burning and deserted Moscow, the starving French army is forced to begin a hasty retreat out of Russia -
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Battle of Leipzig
Fought by the coalition armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden against the French army of Napoleon. -
Exile to Elba
Naploeon was exiled to Elba after his forced abdication in 1814. -
Battle of Waterloo
Fought on Sunday June 15th, 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was a culminating battle of the Waterloo Campaign and Napoleon's last. -
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Hundred Days
Marked the period between Emperor Napoleon of France's return from exile on Elba to Paris on March 20th, 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on July 8th, 1815. -
Exile to St. Helena
After Napolenon's defeat in the battle of Waterloo he was exiled to a little rock called St. Helena -
Death
Napolean died in St. Helena on May 5th, 1821
