Tues Jan 29

•Start Napoleon lecture

•Start HW – pg 484-87 Q 1-4

•Obj- to understand the basics of Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte

• Life 1769 –1821• Nicknamed –Little

Corporal or Corsican • Born in Corsica • Family- Corsican

Nobles• Married- Josephine

and Marie Louise• Children- Napoleon II Died of TB at 21

Corsica

• Controlled by Genoa (Italy) prior to 1768

• Sold to France in 1768

• Paoli independence movement starts in 1779

Josephine and Marie Louise

• Napoleon II• 1811-1832• King of Rome

• In 1940 his remains were transferred, as a gift to France from Adolf Hitler, from Vienna to the dome of the Invalides in Paris, where he now rests beside his father.

Family Cont

• Joseph- King of Spain (Philly)

• Louis Bonaparte- King of Holland eventually Napoleon forced him to flee

• Pauline- Married General in charge of Haiti. After his death married a Borghese

She was the only one that visited Nap on Elba

• Caroline- Queen of Naples

Military Genius

• Studied artillery• Mastered the concept of

divide and conquer• Reorganized the army• Made his fame at Toulon

after he is promoted to Brigadier General

• Greatest victory- Austerlitz

• Worst defeat- Russia or Waterloo

Achievements

• Napoleonic Code of Law• Concordat with the Pope • Ended Feudalism in most of

Europe• Broke up the HRE• Completed infrastructure

project in France• Reorganized Education-

Lycee• Established the Bank of

France

Basic Facts

• Napoleon held 3 jobs- General, First Consul and Emperor in his life

• Completed Military school in 1 year

(usually took 3 years)

Supported the Corsican rebel Pasquale Paoli, then opposed him in 1793

Basic Facts (cont)

• Believed in Nepotism-

• Struggled with a Guerrilla war in Spain

• Sold Louisiana to the United States

• Created a sense of Nationalism in Europe

• Rosetta Stone and advances in Egyptian studies

• Struggled with the slave revolt in Haiti

Napoleon Timeline

• 1779- Brienne military school• 1784-leaves for the Royal Military School (Paris)• 1785- Graduates early from Military School• 1793- Family flees Corsica• 1793- Battle of Toulon• 1795- Suppresses royalist uprising-“Whiff of GS”• 1796- Italian campaign• 1798- Egyptian campaign begins• 1798- Victory at the Battle of the Pyramids

• Aug 1798- Battle of the Nile and the institute founded

• 1799- Flees Egypt• 1799- Coup in France• 1801-Concordat with the Pope• 1803- Louisiana purchase• 1804- Napoleon becomes Emperor• 1805- Battle of Trafalgar and Austerlitz• 1806- Confederation of the Rhine created

• 1812- Napoleon’s troops invade Russia• 1814 Abdication and goodbye from

Fontaine bleu• 1815 Elba and the escape• 1815 100 Days• 1815 -Battle of Waterloo• 1815- Second Abdication (St. Helena)• 1821 Napoleon dies

“Whiff of grapeshot” 1795

Coronation as Emperor

Coronation of Napoleon

• Pope Pius VII agreed to crown Napoleon because he had already gained concessions for the church in the Concordant of 1801, which reestablished Catholicism as the religion of France

• three-hour coronation ceremony

• Charlemagne crown was used

• Napoleon planned the entire thing

Rosetta Stone

• Hieroglyphic• Demotic• Greek

• Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion decoded it

Arc De Triumph

Disaster in Russia

Les Invalides

• Burial place of Napoleon and his son

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/LesInvalids.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Tumba_de_Napoleon_Bonaparte.jpg