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NAPOLEON’S GRAND EMPIRE
OPPOSITION TO NAPOLEON
NAPOLEON’S WARS, 1800-1814
Bonaparte’s War Machine
Bonaparte = most effective General in Europe....
Aptitude for quickly organizes/prepares orders Army infused w/ appetite for Fear = most powerful weapon (3 part attack) Bonaparte’s sovereignty =
High Morale -- the Army = the State
: “No man ever lost more armies than he did” (avg 50,000 killed/year)
NAPOLEON’S WARS, 1800-1814Wartime atmosphere = excuse to crown himself Emperor (Dec 2, 1804)
NAPOLEON’S WARS, 1800-1814
Renewed war w/ Britain (1803) Mediterranean fleet destroyed by Admiral Nelson at (Oct 21, 1805)
NAPOLEON’S WARS, 1800-1814
3rd Coalition = Nap’s greatest victory
Union of 15 states Napoleon = “protector” PRUS fights, loses at Jena & Auerstadt
THE GRAND EMPIRE3 Parts:
France & expanding borders Dependent satellite kingdoms
Independent but allied states of AUST, PRUS, & RUS
Costs: Men and money Conquering tyrant or enlightened liberator?
Naples
Trieste
Geneva
Lyons
Genoa
S P A I N
A F R I C A
N A P L E S
I TA LY
G R E A T B R I T A I N
N O R W A YS W E D E N
PO
RT
UG
AL
O T T O M A N
E M P I R E
F R A N C E
G R A N D D U C H YO F WA R S AW
R U S S I A
A U S T R I A NE M P I R E
S A R D I N I A
C O R S I C A
S W I T Z .
B AVA R I A
S A X O N Y
P R U S S I A
W E S T P H A L I A
M E D I T E
RR
AN
EA
N S E A
Moscow
Turin
Rome
S I C I LY
Vienna
T Y R R H E N I A NS E A
B L A C KS E A
N O R T HS E A
B A LT I CS E A
AT L A N T I CO C E A N
B AYO F
B I S C AY Milan
Paris
D E N M A R K
B A L E R I C IS
(French)
Warsaw
Tilsit
Vilna
Smolensk
BerlinAmsterdam
Brussels
Waterloo 1815
Madrid
Cadiz
ILL
YR
IAN
Rhine R
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Dnieper R.
Marengo 1800
Bailen 1808
Cape Trafalgar1805
Hohenlinden 1800
Wagram1809
Austerlitz 1805
Jena 1806LEIPZIG 1813
Eylau 1807
Friedland 1807
Borodino 1812
Confederation ofthe Rhine Boundary
French Empire
Satellites
Nominal Allies of Napoleon
Hostile to Napoleon
Battle Site
0 300 Miles200100
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CRUMBLING EMPIRE
Spain (1808) Breakdown of
Alex I openly repudiates (1811)
600,000 largest force yet assembled in single army 1/3 French, rest draftees from allies Russians Retreat =
Sixth Coalition GB, RUS, AUST, PRUS Prince Klemens von Metternich call for a
April 4, 1814 as mini-state Restoration of Bourbon Dynasty (Louis XVIII)
Napoleonic Legend?
Merde.
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