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Napolean was born in Corsica, and island off the southern coast of France.
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The storming of the Bastille started the French Revolution. A huge group of people marched to the Bastille, searching for gun powder and prisoners that had been taken by the unpopular and detested King, Louis XVI.
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The Reign of Terror was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution.
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The Battle of Toulon was an early Republican victory over a Royalist rebellion in the Southern French city of Toulon.
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Napoleon Bonaparte launched an offensive military campaign in Egypt in an effort to protect France's trade interests.
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The coup of 18 Brumaire brought General Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France, and ended the French Revolution.
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Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Consul for life on the results of the plebiscite.
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The French civil code established under Napoléon and it forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs should go to the most qualified.
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The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement fought by the Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies
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The Battle of Austerlitz was one of Napoleon's greatest victories, where the French Empire effectively crushed the Third Coalition.
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The Continental System was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during the Napoleonic Wars.
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The Peninsular War was a military conflict between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Invasion of Russia was a Russian victory over the French army in 1812 that marked a huge blow to Napoleon’s ambitions of European dominance.
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The enormous army, featuring more than 500,000 soldiers and staff, is forced to begin a hasty retreat out of the burning, deserted Moscow of Russia.
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The Battle of Leipzig was fought by the coalition armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden against the French army of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, at Leipzig, Saxony.
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The Coalition invaded France, forced Napoleon to abdicate and exiled him to the island of Elba.
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The Hundred Days marked the period between Emperor Napoleon I of France's return from exile on Elba to Paris.
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An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition.
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Napoleon was imprisoned and then exiled to the island of Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean, from the west coast of Africa.
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An autopsy concluded he died of stomach cancer, but there has been some debate about the cause of his death, as some scholars have speculated that he was a victim of arsenic poisoning.
