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Modern World History Chapter 7; Section 4 Napoleon’s Empire Collapses oleon/videos/napoleon s/the-rise-of- napoleon?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined& f=1&free=false

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.

Napoleon’s Costly Mistakes

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

Here, Napoleon touches one of his own soldiers suffering from bubonic plague at Jaffa in March 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.

Mistake 1: The Continental System

-In 1806 Napoleon set up a naval blockade around Britain

-He also wanted to destroy the British economy

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

-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

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

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

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

-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

Mistake 3: The Invasion of Russia oleon-invades- russia?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free =false

-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

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

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

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

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

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

-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

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

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

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

-Napoleon surrenders in April 1814

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

The hundred days -Louis XVIII assumes the throne

-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

-He marches to Paris building a military as he travels

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

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

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

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-He had returned to power in only 100 days

-The allies then ship him off to St. Helena final- exile?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false

-He died in 1821 of a stomach ailment of- napoleon?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=fals e

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