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Napoleon was born on August 15, 1769 Ajaccio, France
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The French Revolution began on July 14 when the citizens of France revolted ans stormed the Bastille in an attempt to secure weapons and gunpowder.
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Napoleon Bonaparte won his first battle against the Anglo-Spanish fleet by forecing them to retreat and occupied the city of Toulon and its forts.
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The period of violence between the Girondins and the Jacobins where the Jacobins exacuted tens of thousands of people for "not being loyal to the revolution".
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Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign to mainly protect French trade interests, undermine Britain's access to India, and to establish scientific enterprise in the region.
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Brought General Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France and, in the view of many historians, ended the French Revolution.
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The Napoleonic Code / "Code Civil Des Français" is the civil code of the French. The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs should go to the most qualified.
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Napoleon is crowned the king of France. He does this to gain prestige in international royalist and Catholic milieux and to lay the foundation for a future dynasty.
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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, in which Napoleon's forces where completely destroyed with zero British casualtys.
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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, in which Napoleon's forces where completely destroyed with zero British casualtys.
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The Battle of Austerlitz is also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors. It was one of Napoleon's greatest victories, where the French Empire effectively crushed the Third Coalition.
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Battle of Austerlitz is also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors. It was one of Napoleon's greatest victories. The French Empire effectively crushed the Third Coalition.
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A large-scale embargo against British trade to try to cripple thier economy. It hurt France more than it did Britan because of all of the land Britan owned.
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The Peninsular War was a military conflict between the First French Empire and the allied powers of the Spanish Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Napoleon escapes from the exile and retunrs to king of France for 100 days.
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Napoleon's Grande Armée of over 600,000 sodiers marched across Russia to get to Moscow and capture it, but thier plan of capturing towns on the way to Moscow to loot food and shelter failed. The Russians burnt down the towns and crops so that the army could not use the resorces to their advantage, which lead to almost all of the soldiers dieing or fleeing. The army was only 27,000 soldiers to reach Moscow.
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Napoleon arrived in Moscow wanting to find supplies but instead found the entire population evacuated, and the Russian army retreated.
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Napoleon's first big loss that was exposed to the public was the Battle of Leipzig.
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Napoleon was Exiled to St. Helena, but escaped and ran away.
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A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition, comprising an Anglo-allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher.
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Napoleon is exiled to the island he will soon die at.
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