HIST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Continental System
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Napoleon Bonaparte
• Napoleon’s military career
• Napoleon as charming, ruthless, and determined man
• Successful Italian campaign of 1796-1797
• Invasion of Egypt
o Scientists and administrators
• 1799 → 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
• Economic reforms
o Equal and better organized taxation system
o 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
• Freedom of worship for all Protestants and Jews
• 1804 → Code Napoleon
o Crowned Emperor of the French
Napoleon’s Wars
• 1797 → conquest of Italy
• French failure in Egypt
• October 21, 1805 → Naval Battle of Trafalgar
• December 1805 → Battle of Austerlitz
• 1806 → Battles of Jena and Auer Stadt
• 1807 → Treaty of Tilsit with Russia
o The establishment of the Duchy of Warsaw
• July 1808 → Battle of Wagram
• 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
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