Napoleon 1
Napoleon Bonaparte was born on this island in the Mediterranean in 1769.
What is Corsica?
Napoleon's final battle in Belgium in 1815 when he ultimately lost to the British under Wellington and Prussians under Blucher.
What is Waterloo?
Napoleon sold this territory to the United States in 1803 for $15 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the Revolution.
What is the guillotine?
Period of the French Revolution in 1793-1794 when public executions increased due to revolutionary fervor. Trials took place in the morning, death in the afternoon.
What was the Reign of Terror?
Man known as the "Incorruptible."
Who was Maximillien Robespierre?
Place where Napoleon abandons his troops in order to return to France to seize power.
What is the Egypt?
Napoleon's rise to power includes the successful invasion of _____________
What is Italy?
Napoleon's strategy to isolate Britain and promote his mastery over Europe.
What is the Continental System?
Under this document all men were considered truly equal.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
The French Revolution began on July 14, 1789, with the storming of this prison in Paris.
What is the Bastille?
What group issued the “Declaration of the Rights of Man”?
What was the National Assembly?
Napoleon's first wife who was unsuccessful in providing him an heir. He later divorced her.
Who was Josephine?
Napoleon's big blunder in 1812, when he invaded this vast empire to the east.
What is Russia?
Place where Napoleon is banned the 2nd time?
What is St. Helena?
The three colors of the French flag.
What is red, white and blue?
Members of the 3rd Estate riot and kill guards during this violent uprising in Paris.
What is Storming of the Bastille prison?
Name of the time period where the Committee of Public Safety would investigate and behead random citizens in France...
What is the Reign of Terror?
Book whose purpose was to reform the French legal code to reflect the spirit of the French Revolution.
What is the Code Napoleon (Napoleonic Code)?
Napoleon was defeated by this British admiral both at the Nile and at Trafalgar.
Who is Lord (Horatio) Nelson?
Napoleon and Josephine were crowned emperor & empress in this famous cathedral in 1804.
What is Notre Dame?
Name of the lowest class, including merchants, industrialist, and professional people.
*really difficult word to pronounce; starts with a "B"
What is the Bourgeoise?
Name of working class men and women who made up 97% of the population but only 1/3 of the vote.
Who are the 3rd Estate?
Age of applying reason to the human and natural worlds, which then fueled democratic revolutions.
What is the Enlightenment?
Napoleon was finally exiled to this remote British territory in the South Atlantic.
What is St. Helena?
The name of the policy used by the Russians to prevent the advancement of Napoleon's army into Moscow in 1812.
What is scorched-earth?
This island nation in the Caribbean became independent from France in 1804.
What is Haiti?
Name of powerful group, led by Robespierre, set up to defeat enemies of the Revolution.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
Name of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette's large estate prior to the Revolution?
What is the palace at Versailles?
Pledge did the Third Estate made, vowing not to disband until a constitution was established for France.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?