History - On Napolean
Continential System
the foreign-policy of Napoleon of France in his struggle against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during the Napoleonic Wars.
Treaty of Fontainebleau
The Treaty of Fontainebleau was an agreement concluded in Fontainebleau, France, on 11 April 1814 between Napoleon and representatives of Austria, Russia and Prussia. The treaty was signed in Paris on 11 April by the plenipotentiaries of both sides and ratified by Napoleon on 13 April.[1] With this treaty, the allies ended Napoleon's rule as emperor of the French and sent him into exile on Elba.
Horatio Nelson (1758-1805)
The great British admiral responsible for the victory at Trafalgar against the French and Spanish, who also destroyed the French fleet at Abukir in 1798.
Central Europe Russia - Czar Alexander the fist Austria - King Francis 2nd
Central Europe Leaders Russia - Austria -
Life on Elba
In his 300 days as Elba's ruler, Napoleon ordered and oversaw massive infrastructure improvements: building roads and draining marshes, boosting agriculture and developing mines, as well as overhauling the island's schools and its entire legal system.
Battle of Touloun 1793
It was during this siege that young Napoleon Bonaparte first won fame and promotion when his plan, involving the capture of fortifications above the harbour, was credited with forcing the city to capitulate and the Anglo-Spanish fleet to withdraw. His comandeer dies and Napolean takes over.
Italian Campaign and Treaty of Camp-Formio
Italian Campaign 1796-1797 One general lost and the Directory sent Napolean. Napoleon destroyes the Austrian army and gets land from Austria, modern day Venice and Belgium. The Treaty of Campo Formio (today Campoformido) was signed on 17 October 1797 (26 Vendémiaire VI)[1][2] by Napoleon Bonaparte and Count Philipp von Cobenzl as representatives of the French Republic and the Austrian monarchy, respectively.[3][4] The treaty followed the armistice of Leoben (18 April 1797), which had been forced on the Habsburgs by Napoleon's victorious campaign in Italy. It ended the War of the First Coalitionand left Great Britain fighting alone against revolutionary France.
Grimmelvald, Swiss Alps mountain Hostel
MC Saw a mountain called Shark's fin and to decided to climb it and he found calmness. Then 5 Australien dudes come in to play soccer in the Alps and they ask MC to play. MC plays and when he try to score, the Soccer ball goes running down a 7000 Ft cliff and the Austrians are forced to go home
Brienne Academy
Napolean School - sent there at age 9
Berezina River
Napoleans army retreated and had a war with russians
Battle of Aboukir
Napoleon Bonaparte's decisive victory over Seid Mustafa Pasha's Ottoman army on 25 July 1799 during the French invasion of Egypt (1798).
Battle of the Nations - Battle of Leipzig, (Oct. 16-19, 1813),
decisive defeat for Napoleon, resulting in the destruction of what was left of French power in Germany and Poland.
Goga (3rd of May)
showed the atrocities that the French commited. he Third of May 1808 is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. In the work, Goya sought to commemorate Spanish resistance to Napoleon's armies
Treaty of Paris
signed on 30 May 1814, ended the war between France and the Sixth Coalition, part of the Napoleonic Wars, following an armistice signed on 23 April between Charles, Count of Artois, and the allies.[1] The treaty set the borders for France under the House of Bourbon and restored territories to other nations. It is sometimes called the First Peace of Paris, as another one followed in 1815.
Britain counterblockades France
starts the war of 1812.
Battle of the Nations at Leipzig
(1813)Napoleon's army is battered and defeated by nearly all of the nations of Europe who have now allied themselves against Napoleon
Joseph Fouche (1758-1823)
-Helped with political actions while Napoleon was at war -Opportunist who had earned a reputation for brutality from the Reign of Terror - Minister of Police -Organized a spy system -Helped increase surveillance -Followed by an increase in arrests
2nd Treaty of Paris
1815. Dealt more harshly with France; pay large indemnity, lost some minor territories. Napolean had to go island near Africa. Napoleon was persuaded to abdicate again, on 22 June. King Louis XVIII, who had fled the country when Napoleon arrived in Paris, took the throne for a second time on 8 July. The 1815 treaty had more punitive terms than the treaty of the previous year. France was ordered to pay 700 million francs in indemnities, and its borders were reduced to those that had existed on 1 January 1790. France was to pay additional money to cover the cost of providing additional defensive fortifications to be built by neighbouring Coalition countries. Under the terms of the treaty, parts of France were to be occupied by up to 150,000 soldiers for five years, with France covering the cost. Napoleon to the distant island of Saint Helena, where he died of stomach cancer in May 1821.
Napoleonic Code
A comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon Had Good and Bad Points
Pennisular War
A conflict, lasting from 1808 to 1813, in which Spanish Rebels, with the aid of British forces, fought to drive Napoleons French troops out of Spain.
Battle of Waterloo (1815)
After Napoleon escapes Elba from 100 days, he rallies his troops for one last battle. It was against the seventh coalition of Prussian and British forces. Blucher of Prussia arrived just in time to doom Napoleons army. Napoleon is given to the British and they send him to exile on St. Helena in the middle of nowhere 1500 miles away from Brazil
Treaty of Tilsit (1807)
Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces.
Battle of Austerlitz (1805)
Also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, it was Napoleon's greatest victory. After 9 hours of fighting, France won the battle, defeating the Third Coalition, led by Alexander I of Russia and Francis II of the Holy Roman Empire. After this huge win in the Austrian Empire, the combatants agreed to the Treaty of Pressburg, which took Austria out of the war, dissolved the Holy Roman Empire, and created the Confederation of the Rhine.
1st Treaty of Paris
An 1814 treaty which reorganized Napoleonic Europe. France lost all its territory gained by Napoleon, but regained most of its territories, as well as all the land it had prior to 1792.
Napoleanic Wars (1803-1815)
Are often described as five conflicts, each termed after the coalition that fought Napoleon: the Third Coalition (1803-1806), the Fourth (1806-07), the Fifth (1809), the Sixth (1813-14), and the Seventh (1815) plus the Peninsular War (1807-1814) and the French invasion of Russia (1812). Napoleon used speed and power to conquer over his enemies. The only weakness to his strategies was the guerilla warfare.
Military Philophies of Napolean
Attack from many sides. SPEED
Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
Failure. Napoleon lost half of his navy Napoleon's invasion of Britain ended
Napoleans roots on Corasia
Genoa had Corsia - it was bought by France People in Corsia - Nobody liked France because of the monarchy. Napolean's father liked France (monarchy). Carlos Bonaparte becomes a voice for France. At age 9 Napolean is sent to the Brienne Academy. Napoleon didnt have many friends: He was poor He had a Corsian accent He did not have aristrocricary
Consulate and Article 42
Gives Napolean absolute power
Egyptian Campaign (1798)
He had some success in Egypt and undermine Britian's trade from India until admiral Nelson came and wrecked his fleet. The took alot of treasure from Egypt - most importantly the Rosetta Stone. The rosetta stone had 3 languages The top and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts, respectively, while the bottom is in Ancient Greek.
Egyptian Campaign
Napoleon attack Egypt to cut off British trade with India Egyptian Campaign (1798) -He had some success in Egypt and undermine Britian's trade from India until admiral Nelson came and wrecked his fleet. The took alot of treasure from Egypt - most importantly the Rosetta Stone. The rosetta stone had 3 languages The top and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts, respectively, while the bottom is in Ancient Greek.
3rd Coalation
Napoleon crushed the Austrians and the rest of the army but was defeated Battle of Trafalgor
Coup 18 Therimador
Napoleon drew together an alliance with a number of prominent political figures and they overthrew the Directory by a coup d'état on November 9, 1799 (Coup of 18th Brumaire). His power was confirmed by the new Constitution of 1799, which preserved the appearance of a republic but in reality established a dictatorship.
Russian Campaign of 1812
Napoleon entered Russia with 500,000 men, and the tsar's troops kept on retreating. Found Moscow in flames and did not have anything to help them survive the cold harsh winters of Russia. Had to gp back.
Coup of 18 Brumaire (1799)
Napoleon overthrows the Directory and establishes himself as one of three consuls of France.
Paul Barras (1755-1829)
Paul Barrass A corrupt and amoral politician, Paul Barras was a former army officer who saw his chance to further himself with the French Revolution. Becoming a Deputy, Barras was the political officer at Toulon - where he first met the young and ambitious Napoleon Bonaparte. Assisting in the fall of Maximilien Robespierre, Barras joined the Directory and, when a counter-revolution threatened, he called upon Bonaparte to use force to end it. The legendary "whiff of grapeshot"followed and, safe in his office, Barras became a key mentor for Bonaparte, who even married his former mistress Josephine de Beauharnais.
Peace of Pressburg (1805)
Peace made with Austria, ends the war of the 3rd Coalition. Austria forced out of Italy, pay $40million
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon was born on the island of Corsica into a family descended from Italian nobility.[6][7] He was resentful of the French monarchy, and supported the French Revolution in 1789 while serving in the French army, trying to spread its ideals to his native Corsica. He rose rapidly in the ranks after saving the governing French Directory by firing on royalist insurgents. In 1796, he began a military campaign against the Austriansand their Italian allies, scoring decisive victories, and became a national hero. Two years later he led a military expedition to Egypt that served as a springboard to political power. He engineered a coup in November 1799 and became First Consul of the Republic. In 1804, to consolidate and expand his power, he crowned himself Emperor of the French. Became emperor of France in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile.
Battle of Austerlitz
Napoleon's 68,000 troops defeated almost 90,000 Russians and Austrians under Russia's Alexander I and Mikhail Kutuzov.
Italian Campaign 1796-1797
One general lost and the Directory sent Napolean. Napoleon destroyes the Austrian army and gets land from Austria, modern day Venice and Belgium.
100 days
Period of time when Napoleon returned to France a year after his exile to Elba and restored himself as emperor for a few months. He was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo.
State of the Spain
The spanish Royal family was in a hot mess - so Napolean decides to make himself the King of Spain. Afterwards he gave the Kingdom to his brother. The spanish people got upset since foreigners were in control - they retaliate.
Treaty of Tilsit:
The treaty ended the war between Imperial Russia and the French Empire and began an alliance between the two empires that rendered the rest of continental Europe almost powerless. The two countries secretly agreed to aid each other in disputes. Russia lost barely anything and joined with Napolean. To seal this treaty Napolean and the Tsar kissed.
Whiff of Grapeshot
The way in which Napoleon Bonaparte silenced a royalist uprising in 1795
Concordat of 1801
This is the agreement between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon that healed the religious division in France by giving the French Catholics free practice of their religion and Napoleon political power
Treaty of Fontainebleau (1814)
was an agreement concluded in Fontainebleau, France, on 11 April 1814 between Napoleon and representatives of Austria, Russia and Prussia. The treaty was signed in Paris on 11 April by the plenipotentiaries of both sides and ratified by Napoleon on 13 April.[1] With this treaty, the allies ended Napoleon's rule as emperor of the French and sent him into exile on Elba.
Battle of Trafalgor 1805
was important because it established British naval supremacy for more than 100 years. The battle also shattered Napoleon's plans to invade England.