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1. NVC

2. Rise and Fall of Napoleon’s Empire

Essential Question: What happened to cause the rise and fall of Napoleon’s Empire?

Assessment: Napoleon Rules France

• Please discuss the definition of each of the terms. Also explain if it is inline with the values of the French Revolution1. Plebiscite2. Lycees3. Concordat 4. Napoleonic Code

Emperor Napoleon

• Napoleon crowned Emperor in 1804

• Conquered every European nation around him– Austria– Prussia– Spain– Italy– Russia*

Battle of Trafalgar• 1805 Napoleon seeks to

conquer Great Britain– Island with strongest

navy in the world

• Battle of Trafalgar (1805)– British fleet led by

Horatio Nelson– Nelson destroys massive

French Fleet– Napoleon never tries to

invade Britain again

Napoleon’s Empire Declines• Napoleon makes costly

mistakes• Continental System– Blockades to stop rest of

Europe from trading with Great Britain

– Isolates CONTINENT of Europe

– Angers European countries that trade with Britain

Napoleon’s Empire Declines

• Peninsular War (1808)– People of Spain

protesting against Continental System

– Napoleon removes the Spanish King from power

• Angers Spanish people– Unending guerilla war

with Spanish peasants

Napoleon’s Empire Collapses• Russian Emperor abandons

Continental System– Resumes trade with Britain

• 1812 Napoleon invades Russia– Scorched-earth policy:

Russians burn their own crops and cities to the ground to prevent them from falling to Napoleon

– Napoleon’s grand army destroyed by the Russian winter

Napoleon’s Empire Collapses

• Napoleon lost 410,000 soldiers in Russia– No army left!

• March 1814 allied European army conquers Paris– King Louis XVIII put on

the throne– Napoleon exiled to Elba

The Empire Strikes Back• King Louis XVIII extremely

unpopular• March 1815 Napoleon

escapes from Elba• The Hundred Days

– Napoleon gathers his army– Emperor of France again

within days– Battle of Waterloo (1815):

Napoleon defeated by THREE armies

– Napoleon exiled once more

Napoleon vs. George Washington

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn-7UtKNuwE