Chapter 23 Section 3 & 4 Flashcards
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military leader who seized power in France
Coup d’état
A sudden take over of a government
Plebiscite
Vote by the people
Lycée
Government run public school
Concordat
Agreement
Napoleonic code
Complete set of laws set up by Napoleon set up by Napoleon that eliminated many injustices
Battle of Trafalgar
British defeat of Napoleon‘s forces at sea
Blockade
Forced closing of ports
Continental system
Napoleon‘s policy of preventing trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations
Guerrilla
Spanish peasant fighter
Peninsular war
War that Napoleon fought in Spain
Scorched earth policy
Policy of burning fields in slaughtering livestock so that enemy troops would find nothing to eat
Waterloo
Battle in Belgium that was Napoleon final debate
Hundred days
Napoleon last bid For power, Which ended at Waterloo