1. Napoleon’s Empire Collapses
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2. Napoleon’s 3 Mistakes Continental System Peninsular War
Invasion of Russia

3. Continental System
Blockade – forcible closing of ports preventing trade
Napoleon does this with Britain
Doesn’t work

4. Peninsular War
Napoleon sends army through Spain to Portugal – defying Continental System
Spain protests – Napoleon makes his brother king
5 yrs Spanish guerrillas fight French
Napoleon loses 300,000 men

5. Invasion of Russia Russia ignores Continental System
Alexander I uses scorched-earth policy – burning grain fields and slaughtering livestock leaving nothing to eat
Burns Moscow
All this and Russian winter (-30 F) decimate French Army

7. Defeat
Napoleon defeated at Leipzig
Coalition move toward Paris

8. Elba Napoleon banished to island of Elbe
Put Louis XVIII in power – unpopular
Napoleon escapes and retakes power

9. Hundred Days Napoleon gets army together again – 100 days
Defeated at Waterloo, Belgium
Banished to St. Helena in South Atlantic