France post-Revolution Pages

What goals of the Revolution was Napoleon able to accomplish?

What is the Louisiana Purchase?  Napoleon sees Haiti as a military port  Slaves revolt  23,000 French soldiers sent  Die of yellow fever or are killed in fighting the Haitian slaves  US government want the port of New Orleans  Opportunity to make money and cut losses  Sells 530,000,000 acres for 15M .03 per acre  Avg. acre today sells for $3,020  Gains money and further punishes British

How does Napoleon conquer Europe?  Annexed the Austrian Netherlands and parts of Italy to France  Set up government in Switzerland  Britain persuaded Russia, Austria, and Sweden to join a coalition against France  Called the Third Coalition  Napoleon rallies French troops  Crushes Third Coalition  Rulers of Russia, Austria, and Sweden sign peace treaties  Enables him to build largest European empire since the Roman’s  Loses to Britain at Battle of Trafalgar

What were Napoleon’s 3 costly mistakes?  Continental System  Blockade preventing all trade and communication between Great Britain and other European countries  Smugglers, including Napoleon’s brother, helped Britain  Britain responds with own blockade  Have better Navy so they are better at it  The Peninsular War  Portugal ignoring Continental System  Send army through Spain  Spanish towns protest  Deposed Spanish king  Enflames nationalist feeling  5 years of guerrilla attacks on French troops  Britain sends assistance  Lost 300,000 men

(continue) What were Napoleon’s 3 costly mistakes?  Invasion of Russia  Alexander I, ally of France, will not stop selling grain to Britain  June, 1812 march to Russia  Scorched-earth policy  Russian troops burn crops and slaughter livestock  Moscow burnt to the ground  Rather than surrender the “holy city”, Alexander had it set of fire  Mid-October, 1812  French troops retreat  Attacked by Russian troops