History 1810E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Les Invalides, Maximilien Robespierre, War Of The First Coalition
5 May 2016
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Wars that changed the world: the napoleonic wars (1803-1815) Names of wars - tell us something about conflict/time frame/participants/geo military as- pects/nature/revolution etc. Napoleonic wars named after an indiv. named napoleon and in gen. most wars are not named after indivs. Commemoration: napoleon at elba death of napoleon is commemorated today(elba) Revoluation, war and the rise of napoleon different ways to represent napolean (ex. as a military solider or as the emperior) death in helena in 1821 --- state funeral and tomb at hotel des invalides. 1785: ecole royale millitaire specialized in artillery, graduated as a sub lieutenant raised mostly by his mother (letizia) bc father (carlo) was a womanizer Corsica purchased by france in 1768 patriot of corsica family fled to france in 1792. Napoleon wanted to work with paoli the governor but it didn"t work out when moved to france he changed his name to french name. Robespierre and jacobins - most popular faction for their time.
