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Napoleon Bonaparte is born in Corsica
Napoleon Bonaparte was born of lower noble status in Ajaccio, Corsica
on August 15, 1769. His parents were Carlo Bonaparte, and Letizia
Ramolino Bonaparte. He had seven brothers and sisters, and despised
the French.
Early military successes (1796)
After Napoleon's encounter with the Austrians, he returned to Paris
where he began thinking of pursuing political power and military
power. He wanted to become the next Alexander the Great, so he asked
if he could take a large army to Egypt. That way he could conquer an
empire that included Egypt, India, and other middle and Far East places.
Napoleon Fights his Egyptian campaign (1798-1799)
The Rosetta stone is a basalt slab with identical texts inscribed in
hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek. Priests of Ptolemy V usually did
the inscribing. The Rosetta stone was found by Napoleon's men in
Egypt in 1799.
Another of the Egyptian battles was the battle of the Nile in Aboukir
Bay, where Napoleon's fleet was destroyed, and he decided to invade Syria.
War of the Second Coalition is fought (1798-1801)
The second coalition consisted of Britain, Austria, and Russia. The
British navy continued to destroy French shipping with its attacks.
The treaty of Amiens was signed in 1802. France, Spain, the Batavian
Republic, and Great Britain signed this treaty. England was to give
up most conquests made in the wars and France was to evacuate Naples
and restore Egypt to the Ottoman Empire.
Napoleon I was a hereditary emperor.
Napoleon divorced his first wife and married his second.
Napoleonic Code into effect 1804
Napoleonic Wars (1805-1815)
Napoleon creates the Confederation of the Rhine and abolishes the
Holy Roman Empire (1806)
Napoleon's brothers, Joseph, Louis, and Jerome, were kings like Napoleon.
Napoleon had plans to restore the French Empire in America in 1803.
On April 10, 1803, Napoleon notified Franççois de
Barbé-Marbois, telling him that he was considering giving all
the Louisiana territory to the United States. The United States
agreed to Marbois' price of 60 million francs plus the assumption of
American claims against France. The total came out to about 15
million dollars.
War of 1812
In 1812, Americans declared war against Britain because they were
angered by the stopping of US merchant vessel ships by the British
navy. The war was only a small inconvenience for Britain in its
struggle against Napoleon.
Napoleon fights his unsuccessful Russian campaign (1812)
Russia, Prussia, and Austria defeat Napoleon in the Battle of Nations (1813)
Napoleon abdicates and goes into exile on the island of Elba (1814)
The Hundred Days
Napoleon returns to power, beginning the Hundred Days (1815) The
Hundred Days are counted from March 20, 1815, when Napoleon arrived
in Paris, to June 28, 1815, when Louis XVIII was restored.
Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo (1815)
Napoleon dies on Saint Helena (1821) |