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Napoleon and Europe

Napoleon Conquers Europe · Defeated coalitions armies easily · Beaten his major empire and looked to expand · Took parts of itally Holland and germany · Took small german lands too · Called himself leader of german rulers

Rule of bonapartes · Shared his land amongst his family · Modernized the way states were governd

Costs of French rule · They tried to improve the parts they ruled · Only some people got benefits · All state had to provide a certain amount of army men · Many of them diesd · Tax increased to pay for wars · Peasents had to allow army people to dig up their crops and killing their animals

Resistance and Rebellion · Europens hated French rule esp. spain · Punishment was very strong often death

The opposition to napoleon · Napoleon really wanted to defeat Britain · Was going to invade but it would take too long to get there and would probably be attacked · He distracted them so he could attck but decided not to because ehe needed to defend france · Battle of ulm · Lost hope of invading britian because only had 9 out of 33 shipd left

The continental system · Forbided his state to trade with Britain · Wanted to force Britain to surrender · Portugal refused so napolean tried to force them · Portugal and spain were mad and started fighting, britian then joined

The Russian campaign · Nap got ‘grand army’ 665,000 men to invade Russia · Russia retreated · Naps army then had to retreat he had only 50,000 of his men left · The Russians had taken all their food so there was nothing left · No horses to take there stuff so they had to dump it  · Was so cold that · people froze and food ran out · over 470000 died during the Russian campaign

The fall of napoleon · a new coalition was formed by Russia and drove the French all the way back to russion · almost all countries againt him so he needed to surrender in april 1814 · louis XVIII

Elba · napoleon was sent to the island of Elba · made his own little country there · when heard louis was unpopular he secretly sailed to france to take back his crown

The Hundred days · only held power for 95 days · 1 mil men against him in Belgium · fleed back to paris · he abdicated in june · tried t get into britian but wasn’t allowed was taken to st Helena · died in 1821

Summary Napoleon took control of most of Europe. He wanted to expand to ritain but couldn’t then was put on the back foot loosing many soldiers. He then invaded Russia to take control but the had fled. He lost around 500,000 soldiers here he was then defeated and exiled to elba. Then h came back an took rule again fro a short time before being kicked out again.

Questions Why didn’t they all turn on him earlier?