Review Sheet Flashcards

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Corsica

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Napoleon was born

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Versailles

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Was were napoleon signed the contract for war with his dad

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Battle of the nile

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The battle napoleon lost to the British admiral, Horacio Nelson

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Secret police

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Was the force that operated outside of the French civil code they could arrest anyone they wanted for any reason

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Censorship

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The act of preventing certain public at ions of pictures including television and movies from reaching the public

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Napoleonic code

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Was also known as the civil code promised the right of equality a rights of freedom property freedom of religion and women lost rights from the Ancient Rome influence

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First consul

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After seizing power napoleon adopted the title first consul and set about improving French life in many ways one of his first tasks was to bring together all the legal reforms of the French Revolution and to harmonize them with other existing French laws. When napoleon became first consul he orders his officials to completely reorganize laws into the civil code a new law for the nation

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Continental system

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Napoleon tried to stop all its trade with Europe with his continental system, through this system, countries in napoleons empire were fprbodon to trade with Britain or with its colonies such as Canada any European port that allowed British ships to dock was severely punished

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Lord Nelson

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Was the British admirals leader

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Exile

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To be banished from ones native country or state to another country

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Elba

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Is an Italian island in Italy in the Tyrrhenian seas Tuscan archipelago national parks

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Treaty of Tilsit

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Is when napoleon divided up Europe in a new way and pot his relatives in charge of most of the countries Italy Spain Germany Sweden and holland

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Guerillabog warfare

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Warfare that I slowly organized including volunteer soldiers surprised raids etc

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100 days

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Was when Louis vxiii became king of France very unpopular, after ten months napoleon returned with 100 soldiers and took over, soo he rebuilt his army to 300,00 soldiers, but only lasted 100 days

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Waterloo

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Whole day battle in Belgium valley, napoleons final defeat by British and German led by duke of wellingham exiled him to st. Helena where he was a prisoner until his death in 1821

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Russian campaign

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Was when napoleon lost in Spain and declare a war on Russia when the tsar disobeyed continental system . They marched to Russia with 600,00 soldiers trying to crush them quickly. They won some early victories but Russia kept retreating. They made it all the way to Moscow but found it deserted and they eventually GeV up many starved or froze to death while Russians returned ajdbsuprised attacked. Only 9000 survived napoleon was exiled to Elba

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Congress of Vienna

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Meeting of many countries, map of Europe was redrawn again France went back to its old borders had colonies taken away

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Wellington

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The duke of Wellington and his army helped Britain hi against napoleon to save the Spanish