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Coalitions

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European military alliances

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Nationalism

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Loyalty to your country

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Trafalgar

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Battle to attempt to capture Great Britain (Naval battle)

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Continental system

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A blockade of all British goods across the European continent

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Guerillas

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Spanish peasant fighters

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Scorched earthy policy

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Destroy everything in their path

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Elba

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Island , Napoleon was defeated at exiled to the island of Elba

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Hundred days

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Last bid for power

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Duke of Wellington

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Defeats Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo

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St Helena

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Napoleon excited to the penal colony (prison)

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Plebiscite

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Vote,of the people

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Napoleonic code

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Forbade privileges based on birth allowed freedom of religion and appointed people public office based on merit rather than birth connections

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Concordat

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Agreement with the Catholic Church to restore their lands and some of their power

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Lycees

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1st government run public schools

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Consulate

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Group of 3 consuls

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Coup d’estat

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Blow to the state - forced take over of power

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Corsica

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Napoleon was born their

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Directory

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Government group of 5

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Committee of public safety

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Was a court system set up to stamp out the opposition to the revolution

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Emigres

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Mass exodus of nobles

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Humanism

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Idea that humans can do anything

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Renaissance

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A rebirth of art literature and learning

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Enlightment

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An intellectual movement that emphasized human reason and science spawned by the renaissance

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Toussiant Louverture

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He led the uprising of slavery in Haiti

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Old regime

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Social and political structure

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