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Napoleon was born on this small French island
What is Corsica?
100
This is a country in which the power rests with citizens entitled to vote
What is a republic?
100
Napoleon was finally defeated at this battle
What is Waterloo?
100
The Civil or Napoleonic Code is still used in the civil law in one of these two places
What is Quebec or Louisiana?
100
Napoleon made it popular to pose like this while you're having your portrait painted
What is with one hand wedged into your shirt?
200
Napoleon died on this small British island
What is St. Helena?
200
Combat troops/soldiers on horses
What is calvary?
200
This technique for musketeers was used by Wellington at Waterloo
What is Infantry Squares?
200
The year that the Napoleonic Code was created
What is 1800?
200
Napoleon entered military school at this age
What is 16?
300
Napoleon spent some time on this island, the place of his first exile
What is Elba?
300
The leader of the British army
Who is Wellington?
300
The Russians did this, as they retreated from Napoleon's attack
What is they burned their own crops and buildings?
300
This is what Napoleon had asked his legal experts to do in order to create the Civil Code
What is assemble all of the French civil law into one code?
300
The Spanish used this type of fighting when attacked by the French
What is guerilla warfare?
400
Napoleon overthrew this 5 man executive of the French government in a military coup d'etat
What is the Directory?
400
The belief that one's own country is the best country
What is Nationalism?
400
When Napoleon attempted to attack Egypt he was defeated by this British admiral at the Battle of the Nile
Who is Admiral Horatio Nelson?
400
This is what the Napoleonic code eliminated
What is Feudalism?
400
The French banned all trade with Britain in what policy
What is the continental system?
500
Napoleon eventually bestowed this title upon himself
What is Emperor?
500
The act of preventing certain publications or pictures from reaching the public
What is censorship?
500
The armies of this nation showed up just in time to aide the British at Waterloo
What is Prussia?
500
This is one type of law that the civil code was based upon
What is Roman Law or Common Law?
500
The name of the event that caused Napoleon to be promoted to a Major General because he stopped the angry mobs from attacking the national convention
What is the "whiff of grapeshot"?
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