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Birth of Napoleon
Napoleon was born on Augest 15th 1769 in Ajaccio, France. -
1789
The French Revolution was thought to have begun on July 14 when rioters stormed the Bastille in an attempt to secure gunpowder and weapons. -
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The Reign of Terror
The period of violence between the Girondins and the Jacobins where the Jacobins exacuted tens of thousands of people for "not being loyal to the revolution". -
Battle of Toulon
Napoleon Bonaparte won his first battle agenst Anglo-Spanish fleet by forecing a retreat that occupied the city of Toulon and its forts. -
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Egyptian Campaign
Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign to mainly protect French trade interests, undermine Britain's access to India, and to establish scientific enterprise in the region. -
18 Brumaire Coup
Brought General Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France, and, in the view of most historians, ended the French Revolution. -
Napoleonic Code
The Napoleonic Code or Code civil des Français is the French civil code. The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs should go to the most qualified. -
Napoleon's Coronation
Napoleon is crowned king. He mainly does this to gain prestige in international royalist and Catholic milieux and to lay the foundation for a future dynasty. -
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, in which Napoleon's forces where completely destroyed with zero British casualtys. -
Battle of Austerlitz
The Battle of Austerlitz is also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors. It was one of Napoleon's greatest victories, where the French Empire effectively crushed the Third Coalition. -
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Continental System
A large-scale embargo against British trade to try to cripple thier economy. It hurt France more than it did Britan because of all of the land Britan owned. -
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Peninsular War
The Peninsular War was a military conflict between the First French Empire and the allied powers of the Spanish Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. -
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Invasion of Russia
Napoleon's Grande Armée of over 600,000 sodiers marched across Russia to get to Moscow and capture it, but thier plan of capturing towns on the way to Moscow to loot food and shelter failed. The Russians burnt down the towns and crops so that the army could not use the resorces to their advantage, which lead to almost all of the soldiers dieing or fleeing. The army was only 27,000 soldiers to reach Moscow. -
Retreat from Moscow
Napoleon arrived in Moscow intending to find supplies but instead found almost the entire population evacuated, and the Russian army retreated. -
Battle of Leipzig
Napoleon's first major loss that was exposed to the public. -
Exile to Elba
Napoleon is Exiled to St. Helena (a island), but escapes. -
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Hundred Days
Napoleon escapes from the exile and retunrs to king of France for 100 days. -
Battle of Waterloo
A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition, comprising an Anglo-allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. -
Exile to St. Helena
Napoleon is exiled to the island he will soon die at. -
Napoleon's Death
