2. Monday ….. HOMEWORK:  Read “The Congress of Vienna”  p. 237-241 (online book on Mrs. Riede’s webpage)or go to my.hrw.com to access your online book.  Take notes & be prepared for a quiz. Use the red and green headings to organize your notes!! Define bold and highlighted words. REMEMBER! – Homework notes = 5 pts each on daily open note quiz. NO homework notes = 10 pts each on daily quiz. YOUR choice!

3. Modern World History Chapter 7; Section 4 Napoleon’s Empire Collapses http://www.history.com/topics/nap oleon/videos/napoleon http://www.history.com/topics/napoleon/video s/the-rise-of- napoleon?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined& f=1&free=false

4. Why is it important to learn about “Napoleon’s Empire Collapsing”? In the 1990’s, nationalistic feelings contributed to the breakup of nations such as Yugoslavia.

5. Napoleon’s Costly Mistakes

6. -In his drive to control all of Europe, Napoleon makes three huge mistakes

7. Here, Napoleon touches one of his own soldiers suffering from bubonic plague at Jaffa in March 1799. The reason? To show he doesn’t fear it, in order to prevent widespread panic. And yet, two months later, he orders all infected soldiers to be poisoned.

8. Mistake 1: The Continental System

9. -In 1806 Napoleon set up a naval blockade around Britain

10. -He also wanted to destroy the British economy

11. -British smugglers and even sometimes his own family ignored the blockade

12. -The British were weakened but not destroyed -The British responded with their own blockade of France which actually worked much better -Among the blocked ships were those from America, this angered the Americans and led to the war of 1812

13. What would Napoleon have needed to make his Continental System work? A stronger navy and more cooperative allies.

14. Mistake 2: The Peninsular War -Portugal did not want to accept the continental system

15. -Napoleon removed the Spanish king and stuck his own brother on the throne

16. -The Spanish were devoutly catholic and were worried about their church also -Spanish Guerilla fighters pounced on French troops -In all, Napoleon lost 300,000 troops in six years trying to get Portugal to join the continental system

17. Mistake 3: The Invasion of Russia http://www.history.com/topics/napoleon/videos/nap oleon-invades- russia?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free =false

18. -Russia is a big and cold, why would anybody want to control it anyway -This is the biggest mistake -Russia is a big and cold, why would anybody want to control it anyway

19. -Napoleon invades (despite them being an ally) because Czar Nicholas I refused to stop selling grain to the British

20. -Napoleon and 412,000 men invaded Russia in June 1812

21. -The Russians started a relentless retreat scorching the earth behind them

22. -All fields were burned, all livestock were slaughtered -The Russians again retreat to Moscow

23. -Then Alexander I burned his own capitol to the ground to prevent French troops from enjoying it

24. -Napoleon stayed until October then turned his tired troops around -Now weakened, the Russian army relentlessly attacks the French Army -Only 10,000 soldiers make it back to France -Roughly 402,000 French die in Russia

25. Napoleon’s downfall -Britain, Russia, Prussia and Sweden and Austria all then unite against Napoleon

26. Napoleon suffers from defeat -Napoleon does manage to get another army together, but they are ill trained -The allied forces totally destroy his inexperienced army in October 1813

27. -By January 1814 Czar Alexander I and Frederick III from Prussia were parading their troops through Paris

28. -Napoleon surrenders in April 1814

29. -Napoleon is banished to Elba, a small island off the coast of Italy

30. The hundred days -Louis XVIII assumes the throne

31. -He was insanely unpopular -He was suspected of trying to undo the awesome land reforms of the revolution -Napoleon then escaped from Elba and returns to France in March 1815

32. -He marches to Paris building a military as he travels

33. Why would the French want Napoleon to return? He had led them to greatness before; they didn’t want another king.

34. -In response, the Euro allies got their armies together for the battle of Waterloo in Belgium (June 18, 1815)

35. -Over a two day battle, Britain and Prussia crushed the French Army.

36. -Again

37. -He had returned to power in only 100 days

38. -The allies then ship him off to St. Helena http://www.history.com/topics/napoleon/videos/napoleons- final- exile?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false

39. -He died in 1821 of a stomach ailment http://www.history.com/topics/napoleon/videos/the-death- of- napoleon?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=fals e

40. -Alexis de Tocqueville said “He was as great as a man can be without virtue”