Transcript Napoleon Bonaparte Early Years • Born Corsica • Military School Military Years and Coup • Lieutenant in French artillery – Military genius – Artillery • Directory – Loyalty to.

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 Period
1799-1804
• 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
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Stimulate economy
Food at lower prices
Increase employment
Peasants retain land
acquired during Revolution
– Religious unity
• Concordat 1801
Emperor
1804-1814
• Constant warfare
– Empire building
• Continental System
• 1809- Marie Louise
– Daughter of Austrian
emperor
Downfall and Exile
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Views of Napoleon
– French-ruled subjects—tyrant
– Enlightened reformers—betrayed ideals
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Downfall
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Personal weaknesses
Inability to conquer England
Peninsular War with Spain
Invasion of Russia 1812
• Tzar Alexander I
• Scorched earth policy
– Economic problems
• Continental System
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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 - failed
Napoleonic Code of Laws -made all
equal
•spread laws all over his empire
The growth of nationalism in countries
he conquered (especially Prussia & Italy)
Q: Why would this cause nationalism to
grow?