Young Napoleon
Napoleon was born on this Mediterranean island.
What is Corsica?
Established in 1804, this set of laws governed social, commercial, and family relations in France and throughout the Empire.
What was the Code Napoleon or the French Civil Code?
This 1805 battle sealed Britain's position as ruler of the seas for over a century.
What was the Battle of Trafalgar?
This Austrian diplomat, known as the "Coachman of Europe," was the arch-conservative who steered the Congress System after the Congress of Vienna.
Who was Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein?
Ultimately, Napoleon was exiled to and died on this south Atlantic island.
What was St. Helena?
Napoleon was commissioned into this branch of military service.
What is the artillery?
He went from aristocrat, to bishop, radical revolutionary, to Napoleon's foreign minister, to betrayer, to chief French negotiator at the Congress of Vienna, to Grand Chamberlain under Louis XVIII, to Louis-Philippe's ambassador to London.
Who was Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand?
The Peninsular War saw the first use of this Spanish word to describe irregular hit-and-run warfare.
What was guerilla?
He was the mystical Tsar of Russia who first allied with Napoleon, then eventually repulsed and overthrew him.
Who was Tsar Alexander I?
This was the name given to the period after Napoleon's return from Elba to his abdication after Waterloo.
What were "The 100 Days?"
Napoleon first came to prominence during the French siege of this port city.
What is Toulon?
The Coup of 18 Brumaire brought Napoleon to power as First Consul and ended this government.
What was the Directory?
This 1805 battle, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, Napoleon defeated the combined forces of Austria and Russia and ended the War of the Third Coalition.
What was the Battle of Austerlitz?
She was Napoleon's second wife and the mother of his only legitimate heir.
Who was Marie Louise von Habsburg?
What historic state or states did the Congress of Vienna add to Russia's empire?
What were Poland and Finland?
Napoleon single-handedly negotiated this treaty that ended the War of the First Coalition.
What was Treaty of Campo Formio?
This was the understanding between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII that restored the Catholic Church in France.
What was the Concordat of 1801?
In this 1812 battle, the only major battle of the Russian Campaign, Napoleon and Russian General Kutuzov fought each other to an indecisive and bloody draw.
What was the Battle of Borodino?
During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, he was a British prime minister (1783–1801, 1804–06).
Who was William Pitt the Younger?
What were at least two objectives of the Congress of Vienna?
1. What was legitimacy?
2. What was the restoration of the ancient regime?
3. What was the containment of France?
4. What was the restoration of the balance of power?
Napoleon's quelling of a 1795 Royalist revolt in the streets of Paris was also known by this sobriquet.
What was the "whiff of grapeshot?" OR What was 13 Vendémiaire?
On 2 August 1802, after a plebiscite registering 3,653,600 ayes and 8,272 nays, Napoleon was granted this exalted title.
What was "Consul for Life?"
Otherwise known by this name, the 1813 Battle of Nations saw Napoleon's forces decisively fall to the combined armies of Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Sweden.
What was the Battle of Leipzig?
This person was a prominent philosopher, woman of letters, and political theorist in Parisian and Genevan intellectual circles who opposed both the radical revolution and Napoleon.
Who was Madame de Staël?
These are three of four states created or expanded to become barriers to French expansion in the west.
1. Independent Switzerland
2. Kingdom of the Netherlands
3. Piedmont-Sardinia
4. Rhineland Prussia