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Good Morning!!! 1.Napoleon: Democrat or Dictator? 2.Fall of Napoleon 3.Set up Chromebooks Essential Question: What kind of a leader was Napoleon Bonaparte?
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Was the rise of Napoleon in line with the values of the French Revolution? FIND EVIDENCE FOR BOTH YES AND NO! – Find a Quote from each document! – Find historical details from your graphic organizer to support your quotes!
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Napoleon: Democrat or Dictator? Democratic! Started more fair taxes National bank to help the economy Against the Estates system Opens Lycees = public schools Concordat mad at clergy during French Rev, keeps it down “I swear to protect the Constitution, maintain liberty, oppose the estates” Dictator! “A republic with 30 million people with bad morals and vices is a silly idea” Assigns relatives as kings of foreign lands no democacy Stage a coup to overthrow the Directory Gain total power as emperor
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Emperor Napoleon Napoleon crowned Emperor in 1804 Conquered every European nation around him – Austria – Prussia – Spain – Italy – Russia*
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Napoleon’s Empire Declines 1805 Napoleon seeks to conquer Great Britain – Battle of Trafalgar: French fleet defeated by British admiral Horatio Nelson Continental System: Isolates CONTINENT of Europe from Britain – Blockades to stop rest of Europe from trading with Great Britain – Angers European countries that trade with Britain
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Napoleon’s Empire Collapses Russian Emperor abandons Continental System and resumes trade with Britain 1812 Napoleon invades Russia – Scorched-earth policy: Russians burn their own crops and cities to the ground to prevent them from falling to Napoleon – Napoleon’s grand army destroyed by the Russian winter
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Napoleon’s Empire Collapses Napoleon lost 410,000 soldiers in Russia – No army left! March 1814 allied European army conquers Paris – King Louis XVIII put on the throne – Napoleon exiled to Elba
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The Empire Strikes Back King Louis XVIII extremely unpopular March 1815 Napoleon escapes from Elba The Hundred Days – Napoleon gathers his army – Emperor of France again within days – Battle of Waterloo (1815): Napoleon defeated by THREE armies – Napoleon exiled once more
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Grab the Chomebook # by your name as you come in! 1.Angel Aguilar 2.Bentley Chen 3.Gavin Cross 4.Mehson Delan 5.Jessica Dickson 6.Kyle Duh-Gapol 7.Shareen Estremera 8.Mady Garcia 9.Nico Garrido-Kilmer 10.Jacob Gitin 11.Brian Hong 12.Paul Inocencio 13.Danielle Johnson 14.Una Kaufusi 15.Madeleine Loud 16. Katherine McWhinney 17. Chris Mintz 18. Max Nelson 19. Antonio Nerio 20. Albert Pham 21. Lea Pistorius 22. Ginger Quijano 23. Chase Randolph 24. Kaely Roa 25. Khoa Tran 26. Meg Uyeda 27. Emil Wonge 28. Deshan Yapabandara 29. Jaelen Young
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