5.4 Napoleon's rise to power II

5.4 Napoleon's rise to power II

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5.4 Napoleon's rise to power II

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Changes to the army

Conscripted army.
Ranks based on performance and not on class.
Establishment of the Grande Armée (c. 600.000 men).

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Grande Armée

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Conquest

By using the conscripted army and genius strategy Napoleon was able to take many countries.
Egypt, Belgium (Habsburg NL), The Dutch Republic and much of Italy, Austria, Germany, Poland and Spain.

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Many Dutch supported the invasion

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Napoleon seizes the Dutch fleet

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Continental system

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Blokking Britain

Napoleon enforced a blokkade on trade with Britain: The continental system.
The British fleet was still the strongest in Europe.

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Battle of Trafalgar

1805
The British fleet was able to defeat the French fleet.
The famous Lord Nelson

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1814

Napoleon defeated and exiled to Elba.
Starts to prepare a secret return.

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1815 exiled

After the defeat at Waterloo Napoleon is exiled to St. Helena.
He stays there till his death in 1821.

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Longwood house

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