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A French general, political leader, and emperor of the
late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
He rose swiftly through the ranks of army and government
during and after the French Revolution and crowned himself emperor in 1804.
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| Napoleon's reaction to peasant rebellions. Fired at them with bits of shrapnel from a cannon, which was much more effective than a cannon ball. |
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| War fought in Egypt. Most important because the french recovered artifacts, most importantly the Rosetta stone. |
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| Revised version of the Roman law created in 1804. Organized confusing laws and helped reorganize france. |
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Recovered in the battle of the Nile. Has three translations of the same passage. Allowed us to decode hieroglyphics.
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| 1805- sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition. |
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English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon
but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar. |
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| Napoleon's first wife whom he was very much in love with, but left her because she was too old to have kids, and he wanted his name carried on. |
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A treaty signed with France in 1803 by which the
U.S.purchased for $15,000,000 the land extending from
the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada
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| Continental System/ Blockade |
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| The foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during the Napoleonic Wars. It was a large-scale embargo against British trade, inaugurated on November 21, 1806. This embargo ended in April 11, 1814 after Napoleon's first abdication. |
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| Napoleon's greatest victory, where the French Empire effectively crushed the Third Coalition. |
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| 1812, advisers to Alexander suggested the possibility of an invasion of the French Empire and the recapture of Poland. On receipt of intelligence reports on Russia's war preparations, Napoleon expanded his Grande Armée to more than 450,000 men |
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| Russians burned all crops so when the french army arrived they would have nothing to live off of. |
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| Napoleon arrived in Paris on 20 March and governed for a period .Napoleon's forces fought the allies, led by Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, at theBattle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. |
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18 June 1815. Wellington's army withstood repeated attacks by the French and drove them from the field while the Prussians arrived in force and broke through Napoleon's right flank. Napoleon was defeated because he had to fight two armies with one, attacking an army in an excellent defensive position through wet and muddy terrain. His health that day may have affected his presence and vigour on the field, added to the fact that his subordinates may have let him down. Despite this, Napoleon came very close to clinching victory. Outnumbered, the French army left the battlefield in disorder, which allowed Coalition forces to enter France and restore Louis XVIII to the French throne.
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British general and statesman; he defeated Napoleon at
Waterloo;subsequently served as Prime Minister. |
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| Napoleon was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815. |
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an international conference (1814–15) held at
Vienna after Napoleon's banishment to Elba, with
Metternich as the dominantfigure, aimed at territorial
resettlement and restoration to power of the crowned
heads of europe. |
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Austrian statesman. Hebecame foreign minister (1809) and
made a significant contribution to the
Congress of Vienna (1815). From 1821 to1848 he was both
foreign minister and chancellor of Austria and is
noted for his defence of autocracy in Europe |
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