1. NAPOLEON

2. Napoleon Bonaparte

3. From Corsica

4. Small Fry 5’2” – 5’6” Napoleon Complex

5. Military Genius Large Armies = superior cavalry and infantry Rapid Movement Lived off the land his armies invaded Diversified Battle Plan Great Motivator

6. Achievements in Egypt Rosetta Stone

8. Napoleon crowned emperor of France

9. Napoleon’s Empire

10. 1 st Defeat Battle of Trafalgar (Lord Nelson)

11. Trafalgar Square - London

12. Continental System

13. 2 nd Defeat: Russia Due to Russian winter & scorched-earth policy; Of 610,000 French troops only 100,000 survived

14. 1 st Exile Elba

16. Replaced by Louis XVIII

17. Napoleon’s Return The Hundred Days - Returned and raised army of 340,000

18. Final Defeat Battle of Waterloo (Duke of Wellington)

19. Napoleon after his final defeat

20. The Duke of Wellington

24. Last Exile St. Helena

26. Napoleon’s Legacy Napoleonic Code –1 st successful civil law code –Equality, religious toleration, abolished feudalism –Copied by many countries including US (Which state uses it?) –Liberal allowances for divorce (Who was the first to get divorced?)

27. Napoleon’s Legacy Social changes: Public schooling Gave peasants land Jobs based on merit Welcomed émigrés back Women lost rights Religious changes: Tolerated Catholics, yet still state control

28. Which president is this? Notice anything familiar?

29. Congress of Vienna Meeting held to decide what to do about Europe now that France has been defeated –Britain (Castlereagh and Wellington) –Austria (Metternich) –Russia (Tsar Alexander I) –France (Talleyrand) get together Austrian prince Clemens von Metternich lead this group

30. The Dancing Congress

31. Congress of Vienna Goals: 1. To preserve peace by returning old kings of Europe to power (legitimacy) 2. To restore the balance of power in Europe by encircling France with huge buffer countries to stop them from attacking in the future (small countries are forced to join bigger ones – Austria and the Netherlands both grow in size)

33. What went right? No major conflicts for 99 years (1815- 1914)

34. What went wrong? Napoleon’s conquests sparked nationalism (intense national pride) in the people of Europe. These people did not want to merge with other countries. This will result in many conflicts including the First World War.