AP Euro Today 11/19
1. Outcome: What
leadership qualities did
Napoleon exhibit—or
lack?
2. Film Excerpt:
“Napoleon’s Lost Army”
3. HW: 714-20 (skip 719)
on Napoleon’s wars and
international policy
Your first task today
Using your homework notes
from last night—712-14—
fill out Napoleon’s “report
card.” What grades would
you give him and provide
CD’s that would justify
your grade if Napoleon’s
Mommy demanded a
teacher conference!
Review: Napoleon, the
leader of France
Why would the
Concordat of 1801 have
won the peasantry over
to Napoleon?
How was the Civil Code
an example of “equality,”
one of the goals of the
Revolution? How was it
NOT (McKay used the
term what is a “family
monarchy”)
Who were the
emigres? What was
Napoleon’s policy
toward them?
Why was Napoleon’s
establishing the Bank of
France a smart
decision?
What was Fouche’s
job? Why might it have
been true that he made
even Napoleon
nervous?
The Reign of Terror
wounded France.
Napoleon healed the
wound. Explain.
Napoleon the General: The
victories included…
• Toulon (France) 1793
• Rivoli (Italy) 1797
• The Pyramids (Egypt) 1798
• Marengo (Italy) 1800
• Austerlitz (Austria) 1805
• Jena (Austria) 1806
• Friedland (Russia) 1807
• Borodino (Russia (1812)
Napoleon’s Greatest
Battle…
• May have been Austerlitz
(1805), when, outnumbered,
he defeated not one, but
TWO enemy armies—
Russia’s and Austria’s.
• It is said the one of Robert
E. Lee’s greatest victories,
Chancellorsville, is an
incredible parallel to this
battle.
One of his greatest defeats
came at sea.
• When my hero, British
Admiral Horatio Nelson,
defeated a French/Spanish
fleet at Trafalgar, off the
coast of Spain.
• This ruined Napoleon’s
plans to invade England.
• So it should remind you
of…?
How much do I think of
Admiral Nelson?
• This is my dog, Nelson,
my best buddy before
Wilson, my Basset
Hound (he’s a Westie.)
He lived to be 17, so he
was a tough little dude,
just like the tiny (5 feet
even) Nelson himself.
Ironically, one of
Napoleon’s victories..
• …Doomed his army.
• He defeated the Russians
at Borodino in 1812.
• The Russians retreated.
• Napoleon’s army
followed.
• That’s exactly what the
Russians wanted.
This was the result…
• In 2002, a ghastly
discovery was made in
Vilnius, Lithuania, on
Russia’s border. They
were the skeletons of
thousands of men from
Napoleon’s army.
• Film/notes: “Napoleon’s
Lost Army.” Take a
moment to read the
short introduction.
Napoleon’s Lost Army
And in 2002, they were
finally found. 2,000
skeletons in all.
Four years ago, a road crew
found eighteen more. The
Lithuanian Army gave these
soldiers an honorable burial.
One must wonder if Napoleon
ever fully understood the word
“honorable.”
This, in a Russian museum, is said
to be the sleigh the Emperor used
to abandon his army.
Napoleon’s Lost Army
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Mvi3RfULXmI#t
=1572