Napolian Class Notes

• born in Corsica in Italy.
• Father apart of noble family,
• not wealthy,
• 8 siblings,
• Corsica just got out of french control,
• Neapolitan was boarded in a military academy as a teen, (auxiliary)
• Tensions high in France since they were in revolution, leaving them bank rubbed
• huge mom would fill the streets in Paris
• King Louis the 16 was killed/beheaded
• many armies ready to invade France
• saved revolution government, receiving a rank (general)
• put in command of army in Italy
• came out victorious
• advanced onto Vivian
• french gov still in charged
• 1797 con-quested in Egypt
• attempt to disrupt English trade
• french navy didn’t have same dominance as they did on sea, the land France army was better
• restore nobility in France
• Napoleon called himself emperor
• shows irony
• Napolian is only one in France able to beat other armies
• clossing gaps between rich and poor
• 1805 machu… was in his control
• Napolian lost his navy, making England saved from France
• Napolian view himself as invincible
• continued conquest
• put loyalist government, then relatives to make sure they’re doing everything correct. them
• Britian and Russia are his real enemies
• Created a continental system for every country in Europe had to transfer hoods at land, and not at sea since his land army was stronger than the Navy.
• Spain is only a major country who ignored this, so he created a peninsular war between Spain, Portugal, and Great Britain
• lasted 1808-1814
• had his armies to attempt to hold down their trade
• Spain stopped using the peninsular trade, and traded with Britain
• Spain and Russia would harass the men back
• 10k men were fit to combat
• 1814 Paris fell to the 6 collision
• Napolian was finally beat, getting exiled
• but came back and started the war again for 100 days campaign
• won first few engagement
• then got defeated by Persia and someone else
• S. Helena spent the rest of his life here, and slowly died with cancer
• his ideas still spread making him
• “Alive”

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