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Napoleon Bonaparte “Child of the Revolution?
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Young Napoleon: A Rising Star
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“A leader is a dealer in hope” - Napoleon
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Talleyrand on Napoleon “ He [Napoleon] was clearly the most extraordinary man I ever saw, and I believe the most extraordinary man that has lived in our age, or in many ages.”
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Napoleon’s tomb - Paris
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Napoleon’s Coronation as Emperor
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Emperor Napoleon
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Toulon
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“Whiff of Grapeshot”
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18 Brumaire
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Egyptian Campaign
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Rosetta Stone
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Concordat
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Lycees
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Napoleonic Code
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Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1800)
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Not …
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More likely …
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Art as Propaganda
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Battle of Trafalgar 1805
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Trafalgar Square, London
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Russian Campaign
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Borodino
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Retreat from Russia
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Exile in Elba
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“Flight of the Eagle” He’s back!!!!
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Waterloo 1815
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St. Helena Gone for good
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In Napoleon’s Words “My true glory is not to have won 40 battles … Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories … but what nothing will destroy, what will live forever, is my Civil Code”
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In Napoleon’s Words “A great reputation is a like a great sound … laws, institutions, monuments, nations perish, but the sound endures and echoes down the generations”
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In Napoleon’s Words “My power proceeds from my reputation, and my reputation from the victories I have won. My power would fall if I were not to support it with more glory and more victories. Conquest has made me what I am; only conquest can maintain me”. Napoleon’s diary Dec. 1802
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In Napoleon’s Words “Perhaps I made a mistake in going to Moscow, perhaps I should not have stayed there long; but there is only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, and it is up to posterity to judge”.
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In Napoleon’s Words “In spite of all the libels, I have no fear whatever about my fame. Posterity will do me justice. The truth will be known; and the good I have done will be compared with the faults I have committed. I am not uneasy as to the result.” Napoleon’s diary St. Helena March 1817
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Napoleon Key Terms “whiff of grapeshot” Rosetta Stone Lycees Napoleonic Code (Civil Code) Imperial Guard Bank of France Continental System Russian Campaign Waterloo
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