Napoleon - Fun Facts
This is the land where Napoleon was born and the land where he died. (2 different places)
What is Corsica? What is in exile in Saint Helena?
The Russian campaign was fought in this year.
What is 1812?
Waterloo is in this modern-day country.
What is Belgium?
England had the undisputed best _______.
What is navy?
This mountain range separates Spain and France.
What are the Pyrenees?
This is the name of Napoleon's standardization of French law.
What is the Code of Napoleon?
The Russians used this tactic to deny Napoleon's troops provisions. Name and describe the tactic.
What is "scorched earth"? What is Russia burning down their own villages and ruining their own crops?
This is the English general who finally defeated Napoleon.
This is the Russian leader who originally admired Napoleon but came to hate him.
Who is Tsar Aleksandr?
This is the name of the waterway separating England and France.
What is the English Channel?
This is the time between Napoleon's escape from his island of exile until his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.
What is the "100 Days"?
This was the benefit of staying in Smolensk. This was the main benefit of marching on to Moscow.
What was being assured of provisions for his army? What was crushing the Russian army and ending the war?
Napoleon made this tactical error about the Prussian army after his defeated them in battle.
What is the Prussians marched to reinforce the British instead of withdrawing from the battle?
This was the timing and purpose of the Congress of Vienna.
What was after Napoleon's defeat in Russia (when he was in his first exile)? What was to balance the power in Europe to avoid future wars?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
This is the river that Napoleon's army crossed to invade Russia.
What is the Nieman River?
Napoleon did this unusual thing during his coronation as Emperor of the French Empire.
What is he grabbed the crown and placed it on his own head?
These, roughly, are the numbers of Napoleon's advancing and returning army. Other than in battle, name 2 things that led to so many deaths.
What are roughly 400,000 and 40,000? What are starvation and disease?
Name any two effects of the battle.
What is Napoleon was exiled? What is peace reigned in Europe for 100 years? What was the return of the constitutional monarchy in France?
The Confederation of the Rhine began after Napoleon's victory in this battle. Its creation prompted Emperor Franz II to do this shocking thing.
What is the Battle of Austerlitz?
What is Emperor Franz disbanding the Holy Roman Empire so Napoleon could not gain its crown?
This is the capital of Austria.
What is Vienna?
Napoleon divorced _____________ and married _______________.
Who was Josephine Bonaparte and then Marie Louise of Austria?
Name any three tactical errors Napoleon made in his Russian campaign.
What is stretching his supply line too thin? What is not accounting for the harsh winter? What is not accounting for Russia's scorched earth strategy?
This was Napoleon's battle plan to defeat the British and Prussian armies.
These are two reasons why the English battle took too long which allowed the remnants of the Prussian army to join forces with England.
What is he planned to defeat the English and Prussian armies separately before they had time to merge into one larger army?
What are the English were in a fortified position and Napoleon had to delay his advance because the ground was too muddy for the French cannons?
Describe Napoleon's Continental System and its disastrous effect on Europe.
What is the blockade of ports to English vessels? What is the enforcement of it provoked war between France and Russia?
The Rhine runs through any two modern countries.
What are Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Austria, and the Netherlands?