Napoleon

A Whiff of Grape Shot

• 1795 The new government (National convention) was threatened by royalists

•Napoleon dispersed the angry mob with his artillery

• This lead to his promotion to General

The Coup •The Directory = corruption and

bankruptcy

•Napoleon marched on the government of france with the support of Sieyes, Lucien (brother), Roger Ducos, and Charles Maurice Talleyrand

•Napoleon out maneuvers his allies and is eventually elected First Consul for life

•The Directory = corruption and bankruptcy

•Napoleon marched on the government of france with the support of Sieyes, Lucien (brother), Roger Ducos, and Charles Maurice Talleyrand

•Napoleon out maneuvers his allies and is eventually elected First Consul for life

The Concordat•Napoleon’s deal with the Church

•Catholic Church official church of France (People were still able to practice freely)

•The Government would pay the salaries of the clergy

•The church gave up all its claims to church land confiscated during the Revolution

Napoleonic Reforms

•Universal public education for all creates a skilled labor force to build your economy

•Napoleonic Code – he codified French laws to bring a consistent justice to every citizen under his rule. Right to a fair trial, innocent until proven guilty and had to be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt

Napoleon the Emperor

• 1804 an assassination plot to restore the old Bourbon monarchy (The heirs of Louis XVI)

•Napoleon used the incident to justify entrenching his own hereditary monarchy into the constitution

Napoleon Needs Money

•He sells Louisianna for 15 million to the Americans

• This will help fund his war against the coalition forces of Austria, Prussia and Russia

Austerlitz 1805• Combined forces of

Austria and Russia

•Napoleon tricks the Russians into crossing his front by making one wing look weaker

•Napoleon’s reserves arrive at the perfect time forcing the Russians to retreat

Treaty of Pressburg

•Napoleon gains 32 000 sq miles of Austrian, Italian and German territory.

• Austria joins Napoleon’s Continental system

Trafalgar•Naval battle

would give Britain dominance of the Seas

• Lord Nelson British Admiral

• 1805 - Defeats combined French and Spanish fleets

Lord Nelson

The Victory

The Continental System

• Britain is blockading France

• Napoleon demands that all his territories and allies refuse to do business with the British

• Britain is an Economic Power house and it hurts Napoleon’s allies More

• Russia wants to sell her wheat to the English

• Napoleon marches on Moscow to teach them a lesson

Napoleon’s Defeat•Napoleon Loses 1/2

a million men on his March on Moscow

• The cold winter will claim most

•When he reaches Moscow its on fire

•His men must retreat 1000 miles through enemy territory

Lepzig• The British drove the

French armies out of Spain

• The Prussian, Russian and Austrian armies are on the borders of France

•Napoleon is surrounded and is forced to surrender

The 100 days

•Napoleon gets off Elba and begins his March on Paris. He gained so much support that Louis XVIII runs

•He raises 140 000 men by July and plans to crush the coalition before they can assemble their armies

Napoleon v. Wellington

•Napoleon Marches on the Prussian and British armies stationed in Belgium

•He separates the two Armies. Marshall Ney will hold the British at Quatra Bras while Napoleon encircles the Prussians and they flee

Battle of Waterloo• Wellington retreated to Waterloo where he

took the high ground

• Heavy rain slowed Napoleon’s advance

• Wellington hid his reserves behind the reverse crest of the hill where Napoleon’s Imperial guard would fall victim to the trap.

• Napoleon’s army broke as the regrouped Prussian army arrived on the scene

Waterloo

Napoleon’s Legacy•Napoleon is exiled

to St. Helena where he dies in 1822

•His greatest legacy will be the spreading of the ideals of the Revolution

•Nationalism and liberalism will spread like wild fires