NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

1769-1785

• HE WAS BORN ON THE MEDITERRANEAN ISLAND OF CORSICA
• WHEN HE WAS NINE HIS PARNETS SENT HIM OFF TO MILITARY SCHOOL
• AT 16 HE FINISHED SCHOOL AND BECAME A LIEUTENANT IN THE ARTILLERY

1795-1799

• THE DIRECTORY APPOINTED NAPOLEON TO LED A FRENCH ARMY AGAINST THE AUSTRIA AND
• THE DIRECTORY HAD LOST CONTROL OF POLITICAL SITUATION AND THE FRENCH PEOPLE .
• WHEN NAPOLEON RETURNED FROM EGYPT HIS WANTED HIM TO GET POLITICAL POWER
• NAPOLEON TOOK ACTION IN EARLY 1799 HIS TROOPS SURROUNDED THE NATIONAL LEGISLATURE
• BRITAIN AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA JOINED FORCES WITH ONE GOAL TO DRIVE NAPOLEON OUT

1800-1804

• 1800 A PLEBISCITE WAS HELD TO MAKE A NEW CONSTITUTION
• NAPOLEON SET UP AN EFFICIENT METHOD OF TAX COLLECTION AND ESTABLISHED A NATIONAL BANKING SYSTEM
• NAPOLEON DECIDED TO MAKE HIMSELF EMPEROR AND THE FRENCH VOTERS SUPPORTED HIM
• HE ALSO SET UP HIS OWN CODE OF LAWS AND ALSO HELPED MAKE SCHOOLS
• NAPOLEON DECIDED TO TAKE BACK THE COLONY AND RESTORE AND RESTORE ITS PRODUCTIVE SUGAR INDUSTRY

1800-1804 CONTINUED

• NAPOLEON WANTED TO TAKE BACK THE COLONY TO RESTORE PRODUCTS IN SUGAR
• HE ATTEMPT TO GET BACK PRODUCTIVITY IN THE SUGAR INDUSTRY BUT HIS ARMY WAS HIT WITH DISEASE
• IN ORDER TO CUT HIS TIES NAPOLEON SOLD LOUISIANA TO PRESIDENT JEFFERSON
• WHEN NAOPLEON SOLD IT IT GAVE FRANCE MONEY AND FOEVER POWER OF THE UNITED STATES
• AFTER SELLING THE LAND HE FORCED ON CONTROLLING EUROPE

1805

• IN 1805 NAPOLEON ISSUED A PROCLAMATION EXPRESSING HIS PRIDE IN HIS TROOPS
• NAPOLEON'S BATTLEFIELD SUCCESES FORCED THE RULERS OF MANY TO SIGN A TREATY
• BUT AFTER TIME HE LOST A NAVAL BATTLE CALLED THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR
• THIS STOPPED NAPOLEON FROM INVADING BRITAIN