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Good Afternoon !!!!. NVC Rise and Fall of Napoleon’s Empire Essential Question : What happened to cause the rise and fall of Napoleon’s Empire?. Assessment: Napoleon Rules France. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Good Afternoon!!!!
1. NVC
2. Rise and Fall of Napoleon’s Empire
Essential Question: What happened to cause the rise and fall of Napoleon’s Empire?
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Assessment: Napoleon Rules France
• Please discuss the definition of each of the terms. Also explain if it is inline with the values of the French Revolution1. Plebiscite2. Lycees3. Concordat 4. Napoleonic Code
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Emperor Napoleon
• Napoleon crowned Emperor in 1804
• Conquered every European nation around him– Austria– Prussia– Spain– Italy– Russia*
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Battle of Trafalgar• 1805 Napoleon seeks to
conquer Great Britain– Island with strongest
navy in the world
• Battle of Trafalgar (1805)– British fleet led by
Horatio Nelson– Nelson destroys massive
French Fleet– Napoleon never tries to
invade Britain again
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Napoleon’s Empire Declines• Napoleon makes costly
mistakes• Continental System– Blockades to stop rest of
Europe from trading with Great Britain
– Isolates CONTINENT of Europe
– Angers European countries that trade with Britain
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Napoleon’s Empire Declines
• Peninsular War (1808)– People of Spain
protesting against Continental System
– Napoleon removes the Spanish King from power
• Angers Spanish people– Unending guerilla war
with Spanish peasants
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Napoleon’s Empire Collapses• Russian Emperor abandons
Continental System– Resumes trade with Britain
• 1812 Napoleon invades Russia– Scorched-earth policy:
Russians burn their own crops and cities to the ground to prevent them from falling to Napoleon
– Napoleon’s grand army destroyed by the Russian winter
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Napoleon’s Empire Collapses
• Napoleon lost 410,000 soldiers in Russia– No army left!
• March 1814 allied European army conquers Paris– King Louis XVIII put on
the throne– Napoleon exiled to Elba
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The Empire Strikes Back• King Louis XVIII extremely
unpopular• March 1815 Napoleon
escapes from Elba• The Hundred Days
– Napoleon gathers his army– Emperor of France again
within days– Battle of Waterloo (1815):
Napoleon defeated by THREE armies
– Napoleon exiled once more
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Napoleon vs. George Washington
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn-7UtKNuwE