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NAPOLEON’S GRAND EMPIRE OPPOSITION TO NAPOLEON NAPOLEON’S WARS, 1800-1814 Bonaparte’s War Machine Bonaparte = most effective General in Europe.... Aptitude for quickly organizes/ prepares orders Army infused w/ appetite for Fear = most powerful weapon (3 part attack) Bonaparte’s sovereignty = High Morale -- the Army = the State : “No man ever lost more armies than he did” (avg 50,000 killed/year)

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NAPOLEON’S GRAND EMPIRE

OPPOSITION TO NAPOLEON

NAPOLEON’S WARS, 1800-1814

Bonaparte’s War Machine

Bonaparte = most effective General in Europe....

Aptitude for quickly organizes/prepares orders Army infused w/ appetite for Fear = most powerful weapon (3 part attack) Bonaparte’s sovereignty =

High Morale -- the Army = the State

: “No man ever lost more armies than he did” (avg 50,000 killed/year)

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NAPOLEON’S WARS, 1800-1814Wartime atmosphere = excuse to crown himself Emperor (Dec 2, 1804)

NAPOLEON’S WARS, 1800-1814

Renewed war w/ Britain (1803) Mediterranean fleet destroyed by Admiral Nelson at (Oct 21, 1805)

NAPOLEON’S WARS, 1800-1814

3rd Coalition = Nap’s greatest victory

Union of 15 states Napoleon = “protector” PRUS fights, loses at Jena & Auerstadt

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THE GRAND EMPIRE3 Parts:

France & expanding borders Dependent satellite kingdoms

Independent but allied states of AUST, PRUS, & RUS

Costs: Men and money Conquering tyrant or enlightened liberator?

Naples

Trieste

Geneva

Lyons

Genoa

S P A I N

A F R I C A

N A P L E S

I TA LY

G R E A T B R I T A I N

N O R W A YS W E D E N

PO

RT

UG

AL

O T T O M A N

E M P I R E

F R A N C E

G R A N D D U C H YO F WA R S AW

R U S S I A

A U S T R I A NE M P I R E

S A R D I N I A

C O R S I C A

S W I T Z .

B AVA R I A

S A X O N Y

P R U S S I A

W E S T P H A L I A

M E D I T E

RR

AN

EA

N S E A

Moscow

Turin

Rome

S I C I LY

Vienna

T Y R R H E N I A NS E A

B L A C KS E A

N O R T HS E A

B A LT I CS E A

AT L A N T I CO C E A N

B AYO F

B I S C AY Milan

Paris

D E N M A R K

B A L E R I C IS

(French)

Warsaw

Tilsit

Vilna

Smolensk

BerlinAmsterdam

Brussels

Waterloo 1815

Madrid

Cadiz

ILL

YR

IAN

Rhine R

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Dnieper R.

Marengo 1800

Bailen 1808

Cape Trafalgar1805

Hohenlinden 1800

Wagram1809

Austerlitz 1805

Jena 1806LEIPZIG 1813

Eylau 1807

Friedland 1807

Borodino 1812

Confederation ofthe Rhine Boundary

French Empire

Satellites

Nominal Allies of Napoleon

Hostile to Napoleon

Battle Site

0 300 Miles200100

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CRUMBLING EMPIRE

Spain (1808) Breakdown of

Alex I openly repudiates (1811)

600,000 largest force yet assembled in single army 1/3 French, rest draftees from allies Russians Retreat =

Sixth Coalition GB, RUS, AUST, PRUS Prince Klemens von Metternich call for a

April 4, 1814 as mini-state Restoration of Bourbon Dynasty (Louis XVIII)

Napoleonic Legend?

Merde.