Napoleon Bonaparte

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Napoleon Bonaparte The French Empire
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Who was Napoleon?

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• After his victory defending delegates from
  royalist rebels, Directory appoints him leader of
  French Army against Austria
• Continued to be victorious against enemy,
  reputation grew
• Victories in battles in Italy, across Europe and
  into Middle East

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Gaining Power

• The Directory loses influence
• (1799) when Napoleon returns from his battles,
  the Directory has lost control of politics in
  France, People have no confidence in them
• Some people urge Napoleon to take control

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Taking control

• Napoleon as Dictator
• Napoleon and troops drive out National
  legislature and lawmakers
• Divides France into 3 counsels and crowns himself
  Dictator
• Coup d etat- Bow to the State

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France still has problems

• France is still at war with those other
  countries- Prussia and Austria (wanted king back)
• continued to fight other countries and eventually
  got peace agreements from all

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Napoleons good deeds

• Napoleonic Code
• Power to the people, yet limited press power
• Public Education and improves infrastructure
• He did agree with Enlightenment ideas
• Spread those ideas to other governments by
  conquering most of Europe
• Loved and supported the arts
• Would not let the Church dictate ideas

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Napoleons Bad Deeds

• Napoleonic Code limited rights
• Became arrogant and a tyrant
• Took all the power back
• Spent too much
• Lost battles
• Conquered so much that he changed the balance of
  power in Europe
• Caused the rest of Europe to build up militaries
• Caused millions in lost lives through war

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Napoleons Goals

• wars and revolution has weakened France
• Napoleon wanted to reassert France as major power
  of France and Americas
• Wanted to control Europe
• France had colonies in Americas
• Louisiana territory
• Saint Domingue Caribbean islands
• Problems occurred overseas between rebels and
  French
• Disease was hurting French soldiers
• Napoleon decides to cut ties with Americas and
  sell land
• Figures it will help France with problems as
  well as hurt England

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Napoleons Goals Continued

• Napoleon wants to control Europe and begins
  taking over parts
• Parts of Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland
• Sets up puppet governments
• Other European nations scared
• Uniting against Napoleon
• British, Russia, Austria, Sweden
• Napoleon could not be stopped
• he was unpredictable and continued to win battle
  after battle
• conquered most if Europe, with only one major
  power in way, Britain

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Did Napoleon Bonaparte change Europe for the
better or for the worse?
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The 1st Setback for Napoleon

• Battle of Trafalgar
• Napoleon loses first major battle
• Naval battle off coast of Spain
• What does this mean?
• France cannot invade Britain
• British naval supremacy
• Napoleon must find other way to defeat British

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Napoleons Empire

• The French Empire 1807 1812.

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The Fall of Napoleon

• The Fall of his Empire
• Napoleon attempted to destroy Britain by not
  allowing anyone to trade with it- Continental
  system
• Failed
• Smugglers still got shipments in
• Britain started own blockade
• Whos navy was better?

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The Fall of Napoleon

• Peninsular War- War with Spain
• Did not agree with actions of Napoleon
• Feared he may weaken church as well
• Guerillas fought him for years
• Nationalism rose in respective countries
• Now many of those who originally welcomed
  Napoleon, resented him

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The Fall of Napoleon

• - The invasion of Russia
• 1812- Napoleon despite being allies with Russia
  decides to invade them
• - Napoleon wanted Poland and felt Russia was
  going to take it

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Bye Bye Bye

• Napoleon Lost in Russia
• Too Big
• Too cold
• Not enough supplies
• Russias scorched Earth policy

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Wait come back my love?

• His exile to Elba and Return
• The Battle of Waterloo (The final Stand)

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Congress of Vienna

• create balance in Europe
• come to each others aid to achieve peace
• Rulers whom were in power before Napoleon, be
  restored
• Countries such as England and France became
  Limited Monarchies

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Sparks of Change

• All of this lead to a speak of nationalism within
  world
• - Revolutions in Latin America and South America

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