Napoleon Bonaparte. Early Years Born Corsica Military School.
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Transcript of Napoleon Bonaparte. Early Years Born Corsica Military School.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Early Years• Born Corsica• Military School
Military Years and Coup
• Lieutenant in French artillery– Military genius– Artillery
• Directory– Loyalty to revolution– 1796-1815 Napoleonic Wars– Egyptian campaign
• Horatio Nelson• Rosetta Stone
– Coup d’etat 1799• Sieyes
Consulate Period1799-1804
• Domestic Reforms– Strong central government
• Merit system• Legion of Honor
– Legal Reforms• Napoleonic Code
– Equality under the law including inheritance
– Freedom of conscience– Property rights– Abolition of serfdom– Secular state– Denied women equal
status with men– Financial unity
• Bank of France
– Education Reform• State controlled• University of France
– Economic Reform• Stimulate economy• Food at lower prices• Increase employment• Peasants retain land
acquired during Revolution– Religious unity
• Concordat 1801
Emperor1804-1814
• Constant warfare– Empire building
• Continental System• 1809- Marie Louise
– Daughter of Austrian emperor
Downfall and Exile
• Views of Napoleon– French-ruled subjects—tyrant– Enlightened reformers—betrayed ideals
• Downfall– Personal weaknesses– Inability to conquer England– Peninsular War with Spain– Invasion of Russia 1812
• Tzar Alexander I• Scorched earth policy
– Economic problems• Continental System
• Final Defeat– Battle of Leipzig “Battle of Nations”– Exile Elba
100 Days
• 1814-1815 Louis XVIII restored to throne
• Disharmony at Congress of Vienna
• Napoleon arrives in France – Louis XVIII goes into exile– Waterloo
• Duke of Wellington
• Prussian army
• Napoleon abdicates
– Exile to St. Helena
Exile for Napoleon
Describe the man you see in the following portraits.
(2 descriptions/adjectives for each portrait)
Napoleon’s legacy was like T.N.T.
Tried to unify all of Europe - failedNapoleonic Code of Laws -made all equal
•spread laws all over his empireThe growth of nationalism in countries he conquered (especially Prussia & Italy)
Q: Why would this cause nationalism to grow?