Napoleon Mind Map by Cheyenne Sanders https://padlet.com/21csanders/7hyq6n2ep179 Quick facts about Napoleon en-us 2017-12-04 13:14:59 UTC 2017-12-04 17:51:49 UTC hello@padlet.com Personality 21csanders https://padlet.com/21csanders/7hyq6n2ep179/wish/212822438
  • Shrewd.
  • Ambitious & driven.
  • Hostile towards his older brother, Joseph.
  • Highly intelligent.
  • Controlling.
  • Disloyal.
  • Charismatic.
  • Difficult to get along with.
  • Described as changeable and contradictory.
  • Egotistical.
  • Described as ‘neither good nor violent, neither gentle nor cruel.’
  • Was sometimes unclear of his own intentions.
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  • Born on 15 August 1769.
  • Born to Carlo Maria di Buonaparte and Maria Letizia Ramolino.
  • Born in Casa Buonaparte (Ancestral home) in Ajaccio, the capital of the island of Corsica.
  • Fourth child, third son.
  • Born to family of minor Corsican nobility.
  • Not wealthy.
  • Attended school in mainland France.
  • Graduated from French military academy in 1785.
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  • Associated with Augustin Robespierre, brother of Maximilien Robespierre.
  • Promoted to rank of brigadier general.
  • Briefly put under house arrest when Robespierre brothers were executed.
  • Lead French army in 1796 to defeat the larger armies of Austria in a series of battles in Italy.
  • Won battle against Egypt’s military rulers, the Mamluks, at the Battle of the Pyramids in July 1798.
  • Launched an invasion of Ottoman Empire-ruled Syria in 1799, which ended with the failed siege of Acre.
  • Was apart of 18 Brumaire, which was the event that overthrew the French Directory in 1799.
  • Became consul.
  • In 1800, Napoleon’s forces defeated the Austrians and drove them out of Italy.
  • Constitutional amendment was made in 1802 to make Napoleon first consul for life.
  • Crowned himself emperor of France in 1804.
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  • "Betrayed" the higher ideals of the French Revolution.
  • Used war to defend and enrich France.
  • Described as corrupt & bereft of morality.
  • Ego influenced much of how he ruled.
  • Made his brothers and sisters rulers in the lands he conquered.
  • Unstable government.
  • Authoritarian, autocratic, and centralized republican government in France.
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  • French conquest of Algeria.
  • Crimean War.
  • Second Italian War of Independence.
  • Franco-Prussian War.
  • French Revolutionary Wars.
  • War of the Third Coalition.
  • War of the Fourth Coalition.
  • War of the Fifth Coalition.
  • Hundred Years War.
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  • Battle of Friedland - Confrontation between the armies of the French (Napoleon I) and the armies of the Russians (Count von Bennigsen.) France was victorious.
  • Battle of Dresdan - Napoleon's last major victory in Germany. An effort to kick the French out of central Europe. France was victorious.
  • Battle of the Nile - Naval battle between British Royal Navy and the Navy of the French Republic at Aboukir Bay. Britain was victorious.
  • Battle of the Pyramids - Fought on July 21, 1798 during the French Invasion of Egypt. Wiped out almost the entire army of the Mamluks. Abolished British trade routes. France was victorious.
  • Battle of Smolensk - First major battle of the French invasion of Russia. Ended with a costly and unsuccessful attack on walls of Smolensk. Russia was victorious.
  • Battle of Vauchamps - Final major engagement of the Six Days Campaign of the War of the Sixth Coalition. Resulted in the defeat of the Army of Silesia. France was victorious.
  • Battle of Orthez - Anglo-Portuguese Army attacked Imperial French army. France was defeated.
  • Battle of Pancorbo -  One of the opening engagements in Napoleon's invasion of Spain. Was fought when the Muslim forces attempted to cross the pass at Pancorbo. France was defeated.
  • Battle of Waterloo - Ended the centuries-old Anglo-French wars for control over Europe and marked the end of French domination over the continent. Napoleon's final battle. France was defeated.
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  • Insulted Talleyrand.
  • Embarked on the Peninsular War in Spain.
  • Invaded Russia.
  • Left Elba.
  • Could have easily won Waterloo.
  • Continental System.
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