Napoleon's Europe
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Napoleon Bonaparte | an ambitions general and ruler of the French empire in the early 1800's |
| Toulon | the port from which Napoleon drove the British in 1793 |
| royalists | in 1795, Napoleon faced a group of _______ trying to take power in Paris |
| Italy | Napoleon won battles against the Austrians and Italians in ______ |
| Britain and India | Napoleon wanted to disrupt trade between _____ and ______ in Egypt |
| 1798 | Napoleon invaded Egypt in _____. |
| Admiral Horatio Nelson | the British general who defeated much of the French fleet in Egypt at the Battle of the Nile. |
| Egypt | Napoleon became a national hero for his successes in Egypt |
| Royalists and outisde nations | People in France were afraid that ____ and _____ would seize power |
| coup d'etat | a forced transfer of power |
| Consulate | this replaced the directory as the central form of government |
| consuls | three ____ made up the Consulate |
| dictator | Napoleon became _____ of France |
| plebiscite | a question put before all voters |
| Did they want to declare France an empire? | the plebiscite proposed in 1804 |
| Pope Pius VII | the pope during Napoleon's time |
| Louisiana Territory | this was sold to America after Napoleon gave up his dreams for an empire in the Americas |
| Napoleonic Wars | the series of wars started by Napoleon during his reign by France on other European countries |
| 1815 | the Napoleonic Wars lasted until _____ |
| Britain | France's greatest enemy |
| Battle of Trafalgar | the battle in which the Britist triumphed over a combined French and Spanish navy in 1805 |
| Continental System | a French blockade on Britain to cut off trade with other countries |
| The Peninsular War | a war caused by the French blockade on Britain that also involved Spain and Portugal |
| Concordat | an agreement with the pope declaring that most French people were Roman-Catholic |
| Bank of France | Napoleon established the _______ in order to stabilize and centralize the economy |
| Napoleonic Code | a code that made laws the same throughout France |
| women | Napoleon repealed some laws for _____ |
| nationalism | a sense of identity and unity as a people |
| Czar Alexander I | the ruler of Russia when Napoleon surrounded Russia; he became very intimidated by Napoleon |
| Russian winter | this ultimately destroyed Napoleon's army |
| Leipzig, Germany | the place of Napoleon's unltimate defeat by the allies |
| Elba | a small island off the coast of Italy to which Napoleon was exiled |
| Louis XVIII | this person was crowned King of France after Napoleon's exile |
| Hundred Days | a brief period of new prosperity for Napoleon and of troubles for the allies |
| Duke of Wellington | led Britain at the Battle of Waterloo |
| Battle of Waterloo | the end of the Napoleonic Wars |
| Saint Helena | a volcanic island in the South Atlantic where Napoleon died at 51 |
| Congress of Vienna | a large meeting in Vienna with thousands of diplomats who met to decide how to restore peace to Europe after the Napoleonic Wars |
| Metternich | a diplomat who wanted to return to absolute monarchy and who despised democracy |
| France | at the Congress of Vienna, countries near _____ were strengthened |
| indemnity | a payment to other countries to compensate them for damage |
| reactionary ideals | ideas that oppose progress and want to return to old ways |
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