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Good Afternoon!!!!
1. NVC
2. Rise and Fall of Napoleon’s Empire
Essential Question: What happened to cause the rise and fall of Napoleon’s Empire?
Assessment: Napoleon Rules France
• Please discuss the definition of each of the terms. Also explain if it is inline with the values of the French Revolution1. Plebiscite2. Lycees3. Concordat 4. Napoleonic Code
Emperor Napoleon
• Napoleon crowned Emperor in 1804
• Conquered every European nation around him– Austria– Prussia– Spain– Italy– Russia*
Battle of Trafalgar• 1805 Napoleon seeks to
conquer Great Britain– Island with strongest
navy in the world
• Battle of Trafalgar (1805)– British fleet led by
Horatio Nelson– Nelson destroys massive
French Fleet– Napoleon never tries to
invade Britain again
Napoleon’s Empire Declines• Napoleon makes costly
mistakes• Continental System– Blockades to stop rest of
Europe from trading with Great Britain
– Isolates CONTINENT of Europe
– Angers European countries that trade with Britain
Napoleon’s Empire Declines
• Peninsular War (1808)– People of Spain
protesting against Continental System
– Napoleon removes the Spanish King from power
• Angers Spanish people– Unending guerilla war
with Spanish peasants
Napoleon’s Empire Collapses• Russian Emperor abandons
Continental System– Resumes trade with Britain
• 1812 Napoleon invades Russia– Scorched-earth policy:
Russians burn their own crops and cities to the ground to prevent them from falling to Napoleon
– Napoleon’s grand army destroyed by the Russian winter
Napoleon’s Empire Collapses
• Napoleon lost 410,000 soldiers in Russia– No army left!
• March 1814 allied European army conquers Paris– King Louis XVIII put on
the throne– Napoleon exiled to Elba
The Empire Strikes Back• King Louis XVIII extremely
unpopular• March 1815 Napoleon
escapes from Elba• The Hundred Days
– Napoleon gathers his army– Emperor of France again
within days– Battle of Waterloo (1815):
Napoleon defeated by THREE armies
– Napoleon exiled once more
Napoleon vs. George Washington
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn-7UtKNuwE