THE AGE OF NAPOLEON

  • Napoleon’s birth

    Napoleon’s birth
    his parents are Carlo Maria di Buonaparte and Maria Letizia Ramolino
  • Napolean becoming an officer in the French army

    Napolean becoming an officer in the French army
    He became an officer in the French artillery and a master war tactician. As an adult he was only 5 feet 6.
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    Military campaign in Egypt and Syria

    Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in Ottoman Egypt and Ottoman Syria, proclaimed to defend French trade interests, weaken Britain's access to British India, and to establish scientific enterprise in the region.
  • Coup d’état

    Coup d’état
    also known as a coup, putsch or an overthrow, is the illegal and overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus.
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    The Grand Empire

    Having annexed Tuscany, Piedmont, Genoa, and the Rhineland directly into France, Napoleon placed the Kingdom of Holland (which until 1806 was the Batavian Commonwealth) under his brother Louis, the Kingdom of Westphalia under his brother Jérôme
  • Napoleonic code

    Napoleonic code
    he French civil code established under Napoléon I in 1804.
  • Napoleon’s coronation

    Napoleon’s coronation
    It marked the instantiation of modern empire" and was a "transparently masterminded piece of modern propaganda.
  • The Battle of Trafalgar

    The Battle of Trafalgar
    The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars.
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    Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain

    Joseph Bonaparte was the older brother of Napoleon I, who made him king of Spain
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    The Battle of Wagram

    The Battle of Wagram was a military engagement of the Napoleonic Wars and ended in a decisive victory for Emperor Napoleon I's French and allied army against the Austrian army under the command of Archduke Charles of Austria-Teschen
  • Invasion to Russia

    Invasion to Russia
    Patriotic War of 1812 and in France as the Russian Campaign
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    Battle of the Nations

    The Battle of the Nations is an international historical medieval battles world championship, first held in 2009, in Kharkiv, Ukraine and held in Europe
  • Napoleon’s exile to Elba

    Napoleon’s exile to Elba
    Napoleon Bonaparte took the throne, and, the Treaty of Fontainebleau
  • Napoleon’s return

    Napoleon’s return
    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.
  • Napoleon's Exile to Helena

    Napoleon's Exile to Helena
    Napoleon Exiled to St. Helena, After his defeat at the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813, 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.
  • The battle of Waterloo

    The battle of Waterloo
    The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands