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Emperor of the French, the first consul of the French Republic (crowned himself general, consul and emperor)
Bonaparte
Napoleon forced the British to lift their siege on this city
Toulon
the British, commanded by Admiral Horatio Nelson, annihilated Napoleon’s fleet. Deprived of reinforcements and supplies, with his manpower reduced by battle and plague, Napoleon was compelled to abandon whatever dreams he might have had of threatening India.
Battle of the Nile
commander of the British during the battle of the Nile
Admiral Horatio Nelson
the government in France in between the fall of the directory and Napoleon
The Consulate
civil code
Code Napoleon
an agreement with the pope and Napoleon, recognized Catholicism as the religion of the great majority of the French rather than as the official state religion (the proposal that the pope desired). The clergy were to be paid and nominated by the state but consecrated by the pope.
Concordat of 1801
On January 1, 1804, revolutionaries on the island established the independent state of Haiti, whose foundation Toussaint L’Ouverture had laid
Haiti
- French and Spanish fleets are defeated by the British (10-21-1805)
Battle of Trafalgar
- Napoleon’s plan, called the Continental System, was to bar all countries under France’s control from buying British goods.
Continental System
The Spanish, aided by the British, fight against French occupation (1808-1813)
Spain / The Peninsular War
led the British at Waterloo
Duke of Wellington
The unsuccessful invasion of Russia in 1812 diminished Napoleon’s glory and hastened the collapse of his empire.
invasion of Russia
Allied forces defeat Napoleon at Leipzig in October 1813
Battle of Leipzig
Paris is captured, and Napoleon is exiled to Elba, tiny island off the coast of Italy
Elba
