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The Napoleonic Era

Terms in this set (28)

The French Directory
The revolutionary government ovethrown in the coup d'etat of 1799
Josephine Beauharnais
Napoleon's first crush who he marries in 1796
Corpral
Napoleon's nickname; an inlisted man who did dirty work
The Egyptian Campaign
When France prevented the English from trading through the Suez Canal
The consulship
The government after the Directory
First consul for life
In 1802, a plebiscite increased Napoleon's power by making him this
Dictatorship
The Directory has turned into a _________
The Battle of Marengo
French defeat over the Austrians when Napoleon took his army over the Alps and took the Austrians by surprise in 1800
Concordat of 1801
The 1801 agreement with the Pope
The Napoleonic Code
The legal code produced in 1804
The separation of church and state and the equality for all in the eyes of the law
The terms of the Napoleonic Code
Empire, emperor
Another plebiscite made France a ________ and Napoleon's new position was a ________
The Continental System
The blockade of Great Britain
The Berlin Decree
A synonym for the Continental System
The Battle of Trafalger
Battle where the English assure their dominance over the sea
Battle of Austerlitz
Battle where Napoleon crushes combined Austrian-Russian forces and the Third Coalition collapses
The Peninsular War
The resulting "Iberian" war that resulted from the Continental System
Portugal
The country that broke the Continental System that started the Peninsular War
Arthur Wellington (1st Duke of Wellington)
He helped Spain fight France and drive them out
Maria Louis of Austria
Napoleon's second wife
The Russian Catastrophe (or War) of 1812
The second more devastating war that resulted from the Continental Syatem
Scorched Earth Policy
The tactic used by General Kutuzov in thwarting the French
Waterloo
The French defeat in the the Russian Catastrophe lead to this battle and Napoleon's forced resignation
Elba
The island that Napoleon was exiled to (first)
St. Helena
The second island Napoleon was exiled to
Louis the 18th
The new leader and ruler of France who took over France when Napoleon was exiled
Talleyrant
The brilliant diplomat who worked for Louis the 16th, early revolutionary government, and Napoleon
England, Prussia, Russia, and Austria
The 4 nations who participated in the coalitions against Napoleon although not always at the same time
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