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The Italian Campaign
The Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars were a series of conflicts fought principally in Northern Italy between the French Revolutionary Army and a Coalition of Austria, Russia, Piedmont-Sardinia, and a number of other Italian states. -
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The Egyptian Campaign
The French campaign in Egypt and Syria was Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in the Ottoman Empire’s territories of Egypt and Syria, proclaimed to defend French trade interests, seek further direct alliances with Egypt, weaken Britain's access to India, and to establish scientific enterprise in the region. -
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The Consulate
The Consulate was the highest level of Government in France from the 10th November 1799 until the start of the Napoleonic Empire on 18 May 1804. The term “The Consulate” also refers to this time in French history. -
Banque De France
Napoleon created the Banque de France to foster economic recovery after the strong recession of the revolutionary war. This new bank was charged with issuing notes payable to bearer on sight, in return for discounting of trade bills. -
Concordat of 1801
Agreement reached on July 15, 1801, between Napoleon Bonaparte and papal and clerical representatives in both Rome and Paris, defining the status of the Roman Catholic Church in France and ending the breach caused by the church reforms and confiscations enacted during the French Revolution. -
Napoleonic Code
The Napoleonic Code made the authority of men over their families stronger, ridded women of rights, and lessened the rights of illegitimate children. Malr citizens were also granted equal rights under the law and the right to religious dissent, but colonial slavery was reintroduced. -
Declared Himself Emperor
Napoleon was crowned Emperor of the French at Notre-Dame de Paris in Paris. It marked "the instantiation of modern empire" and was a transparently masterminded piece of modern propaganda -
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval battle fought by the British Navy against the joined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the Napoleonic Wars. -
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Continental System
Continental System, in the Napoleonic wars, the blockade designed by Napoleon to paralyze Great Britain through the destruction of British commerce. The decrees of Berlin and Milan proclaimed a blockade. Neutrals and French allies were not to trade with the British. -
Abolishment of the Holy Roman Emperor
The Empire was formally dissolved on August 6, 1806 when the last Holy Roman Emperor Francis II abdicated, following a military defeat by the French Army under Napoleon. Napoleon reorganized much of the empire into the Confederation of the Rhine. -
Resistente in Spain
Under the pretext of sending reinforcements to the French army occupying Portugal, Napoleon invaded Spain. He was met with resistance, which began the Peninsular War, an important phase of the Napoleonic Wars. -
Consul for Life
In August 1802, Napoleon proclaimed himself First Consul for Life. A new constitution of his own devising legislated a succession to rule for his son, despite not caring for a child, and he had taken the major steps in creating a new regime in his own image. -
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Russian Invasion
The French invasion of Russia began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian Army. -
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The Hundred Day Wars
The Hundred Days War, also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition, 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. -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought near Waterloo in Belgium, part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time. A French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition, a British-led coalition consisting of units from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick and Nassau, under the command of the Duke of Wellington. -
Abdication
After his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, instead of remaining in the field with his shattered army Napoleon returned to Paris in the hope of retaining political support for his position as Emperor of the French. With his political base secured he hoped to then be able to continue the war. -
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Battle of Leipzig
The Battle of Leipzig or was fought from 16 to 19 October 1813, at Leipzig, Saxony. The Coalition armies of Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia, led by Tsar Alexander I and Karl von Schwarzenberg, decisively defeated the Grande Armée of French Emperor Napoleon.
