Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Napoleonic Empire
- Started in 1804 when Napoleon declared himself
emperor of France
- He wanted to create an unified Europe
- He made many military
victories that made him
indispensable for France
- Foreing Policy
- He made France an Empire and had
victories in Russia, Austria and
Prussia
- He wanted to
expand the ideas of
equality and liberty
- He set a Continental Blockade to Britain.No
country under his control was allowed to
import British goods. The countries that were
from the anti-French coallition had to support
it too.
- He set members of his family as
kings in the countires that depended
on him
- Domestic Policy
- He set a civil code (laws applied to citizens)
- He introduced divorce, civil
marriage,adoption and an estate
controlled education.
- Decline
- His military power started to
decline when he failed his
invasion to Russia. He was defeated in Leipzig in 1813
- He was finally defeated in Waterloo in 1815,
then he was exiled to St. Helena where he died
in 1821