I. Early Years

II. Rise to Power (1795)

Unique military techniques

Popularity

III. Invasion of Egypt (1798)

dramatic failure

good public relations

IV. The New Republic

Directory threatened

Becomes First Consul

V. The Consulate (1799-1804)

Foreign Affairs

Domestic accomplishments

Rapprochement with the Church

The Napoleonic Code (1804)

VI. The Empire (1804-1814)

Coronation with Pope Pius VII.

French expansion

Family members on thrones

“Continental System”

VII. Reaction to Napoleon’s Practices

VIII. Decline of the Empire (1810-1814)

Peninsular campaign - Napoleon's Vietnam

Invasion of Russia 1812

War and Peace

IX. The One Hundred Days

Battle of Waterloo June 18, 1815

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