Napoleon Bonaparte

Thomas G. Atkinson

Born August 15, 1769 Ajaccio, Corsica Father was Corsican representative to Louis XVI

Accepted into École Militaire

Young Napoleon

Upon graduation commissioned as Second Lieutenant

Rose through the ranks of French Artillery

Promoted to Captain in 1792 (7 years!)

Army Service

Controlled under an oppressive monarchy

Louis XIV (14th) Louis XVI (16th)

Pre-Revolution France

July 14, 1789 French storm the Bastille

King Louis XVI moved from Versailles

King and family attempted fleeing Paris

King Executed Red Terror

French Revolution

Siege of Toulon First Italian campaign Egyptian campaign Battle of the pyramids

Military Conquests

18th Brumaire Abbe Emmanuel Sieyes Directory fell in 1799 Ended French civil war Appointed first consul for life in 1802

First Consul Napoleon

December 2,1804 Pius VII

Emperor Napoleon I

Ingres, Napoleon on his Imperial throne

Extent of French Empire

First French Empire

810, 815 sq. miles

Est. 22,000,000 people

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1812The Battle of BorodinoCapture of Moscow Retreat 360,000 casualties

Invasion of Russia

 Austria, Sweden, Russia, Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal

Battle of Leipzig Mutiny Treaty of Fontainebleau

War of the 6th Coalition

Exiled to Elba Built personal army and returned to mainland

French Army sent turned and followed Napoleon

Named outlaw by Treaty of Vienna

Battle of Waterloo

The Hundred Days

The Battle of Waterloo

Sadler, Battle of Waterloo

2,000 KM from any major landmass

Moved in December 1815 Died May 6, 1821 Stomach Cancer

Exile to St Helena

Metric System Jewish Emancipation Napoleonic Code

Ended slavery Remains returned to France in 1840 Entombed in Sarcophagus in Les

Invalides

Legacy

Remembering Napoleon

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories. -Napoleon Bonaparte

Eric Pouhier September 2005Napoleon a Cherbourg bordercropped