Chapter 19 - The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism

Congress of Vienna

The convened in September 1814, although its work was not completed until November 1815.

Austria

seized complete control of northern Italy in order to prevent a repeat of Napoleon's victories there.

Napoleon

encountered a new type of warfare in Spain.

1807

In , Napoleon began sending soldiers into Spain when the King of Spain decided to join France against Portugal, which was aiding Britain.

temporary reinstatement

The of the French Bourbon monarchy, as well as a nonvindictive boundary solution, were intended to keep France quiet and content.

fiercest battle

The took place in Borodino, not far west of Moscow.

William Napier

described his own heroism in a matter- of- fact tone.

naploenic wars

The wreaked havoc across Europe.

Borodino

The deadliest fight of the Napoleonic period took place at , not far west of Moscow, and cost the French 30, 000 fatalities and the Russians nearly twice that many.

Spanish painter

Goya, a(n) , depicted a time of immense brutality faced by the Spanish at the hands of French forces.

Madrid

On May 2, riots erupted in between French troops, many of whom were Islamic soldiers recruited in Egypt by Napoleon, and Spanish residents.

Napoleon

exploited an uprising in Madrid in 1808 as justification to remove the Spanish Bourbons and install his brother Joseph (1768- 1844) on the Spanish throne.