French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte

By pamelavn
  • Oct 3, 1085

    After coronation Napoleon replaces the rev slogan

  • Napoleon was born on the island of corsica

  • military school at age 9

  • A 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

  • Moved from military general to political leader

  • Napoleon overthrew the weak 'directory' form of government after reign of terror and set up a new three man governing board known as the 'consulate'

  • Napoleon wrote a new french constitution and took the tittle of first consul of life

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

  • Napoleon set up economic warfare against Britain through his 'continental system' which closed ports and didn't allow British goods to be imported.

  • Napoleon invades England at the battle of Trafalgar, but British admiral Horatio Nelson smashed the french fleet

  • napoleon tries to improve domestic issues and made pace with the catholic church and won support from all classes.

  • Napoleon set up his most famous reform known as the napoleonic code that represented enlightenment ideas

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

  • Napoleon invades Russia and Tsar Alexandre I, but Russia used a 'scorched-earth policy that only left the french hungry and cld during the winter months

  • Napoleon escapes from exile en Elba to return to paris and take power back from Louis XVIII and this period was known as the 'last 100 days' of his short lived return

  • After Napoleon returns he attempts to conquer Belgium at the battle of waterloo, but was unsuccessful and the duke of wellington forced napoleon to abdicated of his leadership of France

  • 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 system and keep peace between European nations

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