1. DQ # /8
What was the purpose of the Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe?
(take out your homework from last night, notes)

2. Napoleon Bonaparte

3. Napoleon Bonaparte
Born in 1769 on Corsica: birth name Napoleone di Buonaparte.
Went to French military school at age of nine

4. Napoleon The French Revolution ended with the Constitution of 1795.
Due to continual war with European Countries that opposed the French Republic, they increasingly turned to Napoleon to win battles.

5. Napoleon
Military successes and lack of knowledge of his losses gain him fame and notoriety--Government censorship
Due to the inefficiencies of the French government, Napoleon organized a Coup de etat in 1799.
Became emperor in 1801

6. Napoleon Coup d’etat Achievements Sudden seizure of political power
Restored order in France
Equal opportunity for jobs
Napoleonic Code-equality before the law, religious tolerance, no feudalism
Equal taxation, stable economy, public education, still took rights away from women

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9. Napoleon Issues with Empire Continental System The Peninsular War
Blockade reducing trade with Britain
Increased smuggling
The Peninsular War
Wanted to invade Portugal
Spain rebelled due to religion—5 years of peasant fighting known as guerrillas.

10. Napoleon Invasion of Russia—breakdown of alliance.
soldiers entered Russia, but only left.
Starvation and hypothermia (freeze to death)

11. Napoleon Downfall Was exiled to Elba
Army was no longer experienced, defeated easily at the Battle of Leipzig
1814, he gave up his throne and accepted terms of surrender the Alexander I (Russian Czar)
Was exiled to Elba

12. Napoleon Comeback Louis XVIII, brother of Louis
XVI, became ruler of France
Unpopular ruler gave Napoleon reason to come back
Within days of his return, was emperor again

13. Napoleon British and Prussian Forces again defeat him in 1815
Banished to St. Helena where he died of stomach ailments in 1821

14. Controversy: did he die of stomach cancer or poisoning
His doctor diagnosed cancer
Arsenic poisoning—used in wallpaper and at the time undetectable. Also, a strong preservative. Found high levels in his hair and he was also well preserved when he was moved in 1840

15. Quick Write
Do you think Napoleon was good or bad for France? Why? Describe some events that support you answer.