1. The Napoleonic Era

2. Napoleon’s Background
Born in Corsica
in 1769
Military
Education
Favored The
Jacobins

3. Napoleon’s Rise to Power
1799
Took control of France by carrying out
Coup d’ Etat
Napoleon promised law & order.
1. Economic stability,
2. A fair tax system
3. A new social order (based on talent)
4. Religious Freedom
5. Public Education

4. Napoleon’s Reforms

6. Napoleon’s Empire
Once Napoleon had France under his control he began his quest for a European Empire
The Napoleonic Wars began after he declared himself emperor in 1804.
Napoleon began leading and sending his armies to conquer neighboring countries in Europe.

7. Napoleon’s Empire Continued
Military success was due to
1. Leadership Style
2. Large Armies, and
3. Surprise Plans.
The French Empire extended from France
West into Spain and Portugal
and through Germany into Poland and Russia
to the East and into Italy in the South.

8. & Napoleon’s Empire was stopped at the English Channel.
Napoleon’s Losses
Napoleon’s Empire was stopped at the English Channel.
&
In the Country of Russia
Britain and Russia were two places he was never able to conquer and these fights help lead to his eventual defeat and overall Surrender.

9. The French Navy is Destroyed by the British Navy
Battle of Trafalgar
The French Navy is Destroyed by the British Navy

10. Napoleon’s Defeat in Russia
Napoleon made a horrible mistake by attempting to attack and defeat Russia in the middle of Winter. His troops starved and froze to death !

11. Three mistakes Napoleon made that led to his downfall
The Blockade of Britain called the
Continental System.
No trade between Napoleon’s empire and Great Britain. The Continental System fails because European countries both wanted and needed to trade with
Great Britain to keep their economy working.
2. The Peninsular War : in Spain and Portugal.
3. Invasion of Russia

12. Napoleon Surrenders
Napoleon surrendered his throne and was exiled to Elba.
He escaped from Elba in 1815, gathered his allies in Paris, and waged his final attempt at power During the HUNDRED DAYS .

13. THE HUNDRED DAYS
AFTER ESCAPE from Elba Napoleon marched into Paris and gathered his army.
June 18, 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo
Napoleon was defeated and Exiled to St. Helena Island off the southern coast of Africa.

15. Congress of Vienna
September 1814 through June 1815
Austria, Great Britain, and Russia
MET IN VIENNA AUSTRIA TO PUT THE KINGDOMS OF EUROPE BACK TOGETHER.
All Lands taken by Napoleon were returned to THE nations to which they belonged.
ABSOLUTE MONARCHES WERE REINSTATED
A BALANCE OF POWER WAS RE-ESTABLISHED IN
EUROPE

16. Effects of the Napoleonic Wars
** As Napoleon’s armies conquered other nations, his soldiers spread……
#1 ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAS &
# 2. The new ideas of the French Revolution. Including the Slogan
“Liberty Equality And Fraternity”
THESE TWO THINGS CREATED AND
SPREAD THE IDEA OF NATIONALISM