Napoleon+Bonaparte

Dawon Lee

Napoleon brought French Revolution to an end

Rise of Napoleon
 * captain and artillery commander
 * saved National Convention from Parisian mob
 * commander of French army in italy
 * conquering hero
 * much influence over legislature, appointed members of bureaucracy, controlled army, conducted foreign affairs
 * made himself Emperor napoleon I

Napoleon's Policies The Grand Empire
 * peace w. oldest and implacable enemy of Revolution, Catholic Church, to stablize regime
 * Concordat - recongize Catholicism as religion of majority of French people
 * Civil Code/ Code Napoleon
 * equality of all citizens before the law
 * right of individuals to choose professions
 * religious toleration
 * abolition of serfdom and feudalism
 * women still did not have rights
 * developed powerful, centralized administrative machine
 * No tax exemptions due to birth, status, special arrangement
 * Promotion based only on demonstrated abilities
 * new aristocracy based on merit in state service
 * conquest to control all of Europe
 * defeated continental members of coalition
 * creation of new European order
 * inner core of Grand Empire: France
 * dependent states: Spain, Holland, Italy, Swiss Republic, Grand Duchy of Warsaw, German states
 * tried to destroy old order... Nobility and clergy lost special privileges
 * establihsed secret police force to root out opponents
 * Fight against Britain
 * Continental system - to prevent British goods from reaching European continent to weaken Britain economically (failed)

2 Factors in Defeat of Napoleon
 * 1) Great Britain's seapower, Napoleon couldn't overcome British navy
 * 2) nationalism (all the countries Napoleon conquered)
 * Napoleon's invasion of Russia... lost
 * exiled to island of Elba
 * Bourbon monarchy resotred in France w. Louis XVIII
 * Napoleon escaped back to France... raised another army to attack enemies
 * at Waterloo - Napoleon met combined British and Prussian army under duke of Wellington... suffered bloody defeat
 * Napoleon exiled once more to Saint Helena

Sources: Pearl, Kenneth.. //AP European History Exam//. New York: Random House, Inc., 2011. Print.

Spielvogel, Jackson J.. //Western Civilization//. Belmont: Wadsworth/Thomason Learning, 2000. Print.

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