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Attention please,. Take a pen and paper and get ready to take some notes…. A Long Time Ago on a Continent Far Away…. Napoleonic Wars 1792 - 1815. First Coalition – 1792-1797. Austrian Empire, Prussia, United Kingdom, Russia, Italian States, Spain, Portugal.

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  1. Attention please, Take a pen and paper and get ready to take some notes…

  2. A Long Time Ago on a Continent Far Away… Napoleonic Wars 1792 - 1815

  3. First Coalition – 1792-1797 • Austrian Empire, Prussia, United Kingdom, Russia, Italian States, Spain, Portugal. • Early victories for the allies – 1792-93. • French victories in Belgium. • Napoleon’s campaign in North Italy. • Treaty of Campo Formio in October 1797 confirms the success of the French Revolution. Only UK remains at war.

  4. Second Coalition – 1798-1802 • UK, Ottoman Empire, Austria, Russia (left in Oct. 1799), Naples and the Vatican. • Egyptian Campaign of Napoleon – 1798. Battle of the Pyramids. French victory against Ottoman army. Battle of the Nile. French loss of fleet to Admiral H. Nelson. • Napoleon returns to Europe – 1799. Coup d’Etat, Consulate and declares revolution over – 15.12. • Treaties of Luneville (Austria, Naples) and Amiens (UK). Concordat with the Vatican.

  5. Second Coalition Continued…

  6. Emperor Napoleon - 1804

  7. Third Coalition - 1805 • UK, Russia, Prussia, Austria, Naples, Sweden. • Battle of Trafalgar – Nelson dies, but wins. End of French/English competition at sea. • Battle of Austerlitz – Great victory for Napoleon. Austria capitulates. • Treaty of Pressburg end the coalition.

  8. Fourth Coalition – 1806-1807 • Prussia, Saxony, Russia, UK, Sweden. • Napoleon’s victory and Jena. • Napoleon enters Berlin. Germany, Austria, Belgium and Holland are occupied. Brothers Joseph and Jerome become king of the Netherlands and Westphalia. • UK begins the Continental Blockade. • Peace with Russia at Tilsit – 1807.

  9. Fifth Coalition - 1809 • 1808 – Intervention in Spain. Brother Joseph crowned King of Spain. • UK, Spain, Austria • Battle of Wagram. Austria lost. Peace treaty. • 1810 – Married Marie Louise of Austria. • 1811 – Son, Napoleon, King of Rome born.

  10. Sixth Coalition – 1812-1814 • UK, Russia, Sweden, in 1813 also Austria and Prussia. • 1812 – Invasion of Russia. Battle of Borodino. Napoleon enters Moscow and is trapped in the Russian winter. Runs home. • 1814 – Fall of Paris. Exile to Elba. First Treaty of Paris. Restoration of the Bourbons – Louis XVIII king of France.

  11. The 100 Days - 1815 • Napoleon escapes from Elba, raises an army and enters Paris with little resistance. Louis XVIII runs • Battle of Waterloo. British/Prussian forces under the Duke of Wellington defeat Napoleon. Napoleon abdicates in favor of his son. Napoleon captured by the allies. • Second Treaty of Paris. Restoration of the Bourbons. Napoleon exiled to St. Helena. • Napoleon dies of cancer in 1821.

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