The Age of Napoleon

I. The Rise of Napoleon

A. Corsica and Jacobin Support

I. The Rise of Napoleon

A. Corsica and Jacobin Support

B. Military Fame 1. 1785

2. Defeated Austria 1797

3. Egypt

a. Battle of the Nile—1798 Horatio Nelson

b. Russia

c. Escape

4. 1799— Coup d’ etat

II. The Consulate—1799-1804

A. Constitution of 1799—Roman Republic 1. Public welfare and refugees

2. Catholic Church

3. Consul for Life 1802

4. Enlightened Despot? a. Egalitarian but Absolutist

b. Fair Tax Code

c. No political Freedom

B. Napoleonic Code—1804

III. The Empire—1804-1814

A. Napoleon as Emperor 1. Constitution of 1804

2. Spread of the French Revolution a. Only the ideas he liked

b. Equality under the law—Napoleonic Code

c. No Aristocracy

B. Continental System—England 1. Embargo

2. Battle of Trafalgar—1805, Nelson

IV. Napoleonic Wars—1805-1814

A. Alliance—Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia 1. Defeated by Napoleon

2. Battle of Austerlitz—1805 a. Northern Italy

b. Prussia and Russia

B. Peninsular War—Spain, 1808-1813 1. Church

2. Ended Spanish Inquisition 3. War of Liberation—1808-1813

a. Guerilla Warfare

b. Duke of Wellington

IV. Napoleonic Wars—1805-1814

C. Invasion of Russia—1812

1. 600,000 in Early 1812

2. Scorched Earth Defense

3. Moscow—October

4. Winter—300,000 killed by December

5. Battle of Nations—March 1813

6. Exiled to Elba

V. Congress of Vienna and the Hundred Days

A. Congress of Vienna—1814-1815 1. Buffer States 2. French Monarchy—Louis XVIII 3. Holy Roman Empire

B. Hundred Days—1814 1. Napoleon Returned—Louis 2. Invasion of Belgium 3. Battle of Waterloo—Wellington 4. St. Helena

C. Effects 1. Napoleonic Code and Centralized Bureaucracy 2. Legitimacy and Recognition 3. Peace of Vienna