1. Napoleon

3. Early Life Born (1769) in Corsica to poor family
Character traits from the Enlightenment
Creative, scientific, non-traditional, liberal

4. “The truest conquests, the only ones that give rise to no regrets, are those gained over ignorance. The most honorable as well as the most useful activity of nations is to contribute to the advancement of human knowledge. The real strength of the French Republic should henceforth lie in its determination to possess every new idea, without a single exception.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
(upon his election to the National Institute of France)

5. The Wars Joined French artillery Appointed commander at Toulon (1793)
British ships destroyed
Appointed general
Counter-revolution (1795)
"Whiff of Grapeshot"
Commander of small army ( ) in Italy
Defeat of 4 armies in Austria
1st coalition collapsed
Hero status
Military strategy (reserve, timing)
Egypt invaded (1798)
2nd coalition formed ( )
Napoleon returned to France

6. "A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."
– Napoleon, quoted in Thorpe, Scott, How to Think Like Einstein, Barnes & Noble Books, Inc., 2000, p.167.

7. First Consul (1799-1804) Directory wanted stronger government
"Confidence from below, authority from above." – Abbé Sieyès
Defeated 2nd coalition
Napoleon tried to copy Caesar Augustus

8. "I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos
"I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.“
– Napoleon Bonaparte

9. Domestic Policy as First Consul
Code of Napoleon
Bank of France
Centralized state government
Relations with Catholic Church
Education system
Support of science

10. Emperor (1804-1814) French senate made him their emperor
Disappointment for some
Attempts to increase presence in America
Territorial expansion and war
3rd Coalition ( )
Establishing an empire
Spain
Blockade of England
Trafalgar
Austerlitz
3rd Coalition ends
4th Coalition ( )
Confederation of the Rhine

11. Napoleon's Coronation – Jacques Louis David

13. Defeat – 5th Coalition (1809-1815)
Russian campaign
1812
Lost 400,000 men
Abdicated in 1814 and sent to Elba

14. The Hundred Days (1815) Escape from Elba King Louis XVIII fled France
Ruled for short period
Battle of Waterloo
Sent to St. Helena
1840—Napoleon’s remains moved to Paris

15. Congress of Vienna Restructuring Europe after Napoleon
Conference in Vienna
6 heads of states
Guiding principles
Legitimacy
Restore boundaries
Hedge-in France

16. Thank You