NAPOLEON

NAPOLEON

1. THE EMPEROR OF FRANCE AND HE WAS THE BIGGEST POLITICAL AND MILITARY GENIUS OF THE 19th CENTURY.

2. GOALS

   • CONTROLLING THE WHOLE EUROPE
     • SPREADING THE IDEAS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, IN ORDER TO DESTROY THE OLD REGIME
       • SETTING FRANCE AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD

3. CHRONOLOGY

   • 1795- HE GOT FAMOUS THANKED AS HIS CAMPAINGS IN ITALY AND EGYPT
   • PROTAGONIZED A COUP D´STAT IN 1799
   • ELECTED AS THE FIRST CONSUL IN 1802
   • PROCLAIMED AS EMPERORO OF FRANCE IN 1804
   • STARTED SEVERAL MILITARY CAMPAINGS TO SUBDUE EUROPE FROM 1805 TO 1810
   • DECREED THE CONTINENTAL BLOCKADEBTO CAUSE THE ECONOMICAL RUIN OF ENGLANDE
   • SPAIN WAS IVANDED IN 1808, THE PENINSULAR WAR
   • INVANDED RUSIA IN 1812
   • INTERNATINAL COALITION DEFEATED TO NAPOLEON IN 1813
   • HE WAS BANISHE TO ELBA ISLAND
   • HE WAS DEFEATD IN THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO IN 1815

4. CONSEQUENCES

   • CHANGED THE SHAPE OF EUROPE AND HURT SERIOUSLY THE OLD REGIME.

5. POLITICAL CHANGES

   • REPUBLIC OR CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY
     • NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY AND DIVION OF POWERS
       • CONSTITUIONSWERE DRAFTED AND THE REVOLUTION ENCOURAGD THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE SPANISH AMERICAN COLONIES

6. ECONOMIC CHANGES

   • THE END OF THE ECONOMIC PRIVILEGES
     • PRIVATE PROPERTY
       • FREE TRADE

7. SOCIAL CHANGES

   • THE END OF THE ESTATES BASED SYSTEM
     • DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE MAN AND OF THE CITIZIEN

8. IT MEANT THE FOUNDATION FOR THE FURTHER LIBERAL REVOLUTIONS OF THE 19th CENTURY