The Little Italian
Napoleon was from this Italian island.
What is Corsica?
Napoleon studied this type of warfare in military school, which would help him defeat the British ay Toulon.
What is artillery?
Napoleon sacked this famous Italian city of canals and stole its precious works of art.
What is Venice?
Josephine grew up on this type of West Indie plantation.
What is a sugar plantation?
To kill every tenth man, or to destroy completely.
What is decimate?
Napoleon excelled in only this academic subject in school.
What is mathematics?
Napoleon declared that he could make men out of what.
What is mud?
Napoleon quells the Paris insurrection by firing this into the crowd.
What is grapeshot?
This is what happens to Josephine's first husband.
What is he is guillotined?
The process of changing a system to a base 10 system.
What is decimalization?
Napoleon's home island was sold to what nation when he was 1 year old.
What is France?
Napoleon lies on his military commission papers during the purge, stating that his family is not this.
What is noble?
Napoleon invades Egypt with hopes of cutting off the supply chain between India and this nation.
What is Britain?
Napoleon meets Josephine at this event.
What is a bal de victime?
A political system in which every citizen directly votes on an issue.
What is a plebiscite?
As a teenager, Napoleon joins this revolutionary group and begins writing essays and pamphlets to support them.
What is a Jacobin?
The British burned this on their retreat from Toulon.
What is the French Navy?
Napoleon's Egyptian campaign is cut short because thousands of his men die of this.
What is bubonic plague?
Josephine fails to produce this for Napoleon, leading to her divorce.
What is an heir?
A large rock or a man among men.
What is a monolith?
Napoleon's father fed Italian state secrets to what nation.
What is France?
The Counterrevolution in France consisted of Royalists and this other party, which believed in strong central government.
What are Federalists?
Robespierre makes this the state religion of France.
What is The Cult of the Supreme Being (deism)?
Josephine and Napoleon both lie about this on their marriage certificate.
What are their ages?
The Greek word meaning excessive pride; often used to describe Napoleon.
What is hubris?