HIST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Continental System
February 21
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Napoleon Bonaparte
• 1769-1821
• Napoleon’s military career
• Napoleon as charming, ruthless, determined man
• Successful Italian campaign of 1796-1797
• Invasion of Egypt
o Scientists and administrators
• 1799
o Napoleon’s coupe
o Napoleon the First Consul
o The end of the French Revolution
• Promotion in the administration and in the army based on merit, not on birth
• The end of free political life
o The idea of plebiscite
• Napoleon’s popularity among the masses
o Economic Reforms
▪ Equal and better organized taxation system
▪ The establishment of the Bank of France
• Capital for investment
• Stabilization of the currency
• 1801 Concordat with the Catholic Church
o The end of religious tensions in France
o Freedom of worship for all Protestants and Jews
• 1804 Code Napoleon
o Napoleon crowned Emperor of the French
• Napoleon’s Wars
o 1797 conquest of Italy
o French Failure in Egypt
o October 21, 1805 Battle of Austerlitz
o 1806 Battles of Jena and Auerstadt
o 1807 Treaty of Tilsit with Russia
▪ The establishment of the Duchy of Warsaw
o July 1808 Battle of Wagram
o French problems in Spain
• Napoleon’s Continental System
• International consequences of Napoleon’s wars
o French territorial incorporations
o Reorganization of borders of European countries
o The end of the Holy Roman Empire
o Export of French revolutionary ideas abroad
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