French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte

By simplyhailey123

  • Napoleon Born on the island of Corsice

  • military school at the age of 9

  • 20 year old lieutenant when the French Revolution broke out

  • Egyptian campaign to attempt to block british Trade, but was a failure

  • success as a military leader at the battle of toulon in France

  • Napoleon overthrew the weak "Directory" form of government after the Reign of Terror and set up a new thee man governing board known as the "Consulate"

  • Moved from Military general to political leader

  • Napoleon tries to improve domestic issues such as controlling prices, encouraging new industry, building new roads and canals, setting up schools and making peace with the Catholic church

  • Napoleon set up his most famous reform known as the Napoleonic code that represented enlightenment ideas and equality for all citizens before law,, religious toleration and abolition of feudalism

  • Napoleon wrote a new French Constitution and took the title of First Consul for life

  • After coronation Napoleon replaces the Revolution Slogan of liberty, equality, and Fraternity with Order, Security, Efficiency

  • Napoleon creates he title "emperor of France" and took the crown out of the popes hands during the coronation

  • Military annexations that built French Nationalism were conquering the Netherlands, Belgium, parts of Italy and Germany, parts of Prussia, parts of Poland and places his brother in power in Spain.

  • Napoleon set up warfare against Britain through his "Continental system" which closed ports and did not allow british goods to be imported

  • Napoleon invades England at the Battle of Trafalgar, but British Admiral Horatio Nelson smashed the French Fleet

  • Napoleon invades Russia and Tsar Alexander I, but Russia used a "scorched-earth" policy

  • Napoleon excapes from exile in Eiba to return to Paris and take power back from Louis XVIII and this period was known as the last 100 days

  • Napoleon returns he attempts to conquer Belgium at the Battle of Waterloo, but was unsuccessful

  • After the battle of Waterloo the diplomats and leaders of European countries met to establish the "Congress of Vienna" to restore the system of Monarchy and set up the "Concert of Europe" to build an alliance

  • Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile of St.Helena in the South Atlantic