NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
UNIT 5 FRENCH REVOLUTION AND ROMANTICISM
NAPOLEON TAKES CONTROL
• By 1799, the French army was
winning battles against the invading
countries.
• Napoleon was able to use his
influence over the army to overthrow
the directory and give control to
three consuls (1799).
NAPOLEON TAKES CONTROL
• As first consul, Napoleon was
able to get Austria to surrender
and Great Britain and Russia to
agree to peace by 1802.
• Napoleon became so popular
that the people elected him
consul for life.
EMPEROR NAPOLEON
• Napoleon acted like a Roman
Emperor and used his military
success and leading ability to
control the people.
• He was even able to get
himself crowned Emperor in
1804.
EMPEROR NAPOLEON
• 1805-1810 Napoleon
conquered much of Europe
and gave control of
different areas to his
relatives.
• Next, Napoleon looked to
expand the French Empire
into Russia.
NAPOLEON’S DOWNFALL
• In June of 1812, Napoleon
began to invade Russia.
• The French forces were
able to keep forcing the
Russians to retreat farther
back until they came to
Moscow.
NAPOLEON’S DOWNFALL
• Moscow had been emptied and even had
parts set on fire to make it unusable.
• The Russians then attacked the
unprotected French forces and forced
them out of the city.
• With resources running out, and winter
approaching, Napoleon was forced to
return home.
NAPOLEON’S DOWNFALL
• During the retreat, many troops
died from starvation, freezing
to death, and attacks from
Russian horseback troops.
• Most of Napoleon’s army had
been destroyed in this failed
attempt to invade Russia.
NAPOLEON’S DOWNFALL
• This humiliating loss led to many
countries in Europe working
together to invade and take
over Paris.
• In 1814 Napoleon was exiled
to the island of Elba and Louis
XVIII was placed on the French
Throne.
THE END OF NAPOLEON
• Feb 26th, 1815 Napoleon manages
to escape from Elba and return to
France.
• The French army would rally around
Napoleon, but they would be
defeated by a British General
named Wellington in the Battle of
Waterloo.
THE END OF NAPOLEON
• This time, Napoleon would be sent to the
island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic
Ocean and carefully guarded until his death
in 1821.
• His body would be returned and buried in
Paris like the Roman Emperors of old in 1840.
• Meanwhile, Louis XVIII regained control and
ruled France under a Constitutional
Monarchy…
WORKS CITED
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Core Knowledge Pearson Textbook and What every 6th Grader Should Know
Greenspan, Jesse. "Napoleon’s Disastrous Invasion of Russia, 200 Years
Ago." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2012. Web. 03 Jan. 2016.
http://www.history.com/news/napoleons-disastrous-invasion-of-russiayears-ago.
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Info taken from the background knowledge collected by Sarah Hagen and Matt
Swanson for their core knowledge unit titled “Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity: The
French Revolution that had been downloaded electronically from the internet.