CH 17 sections 4-6

• Regions where Napoleon fought

  • Most of Europe
  • Egypt
• Countries that aligned with Napoleon

  • Denmark
  • Prussia
  • Austria
• Napoleonic Code


  Napoleon's greatest domestic policy
• Concordat of 1801


  • It acknowledged Catholicism as the religion of most French citizens
  • Didn't abolish freedom of religion
  • Church gave peasants back property
• First Consul


  Came from the Roman Republic
• Coup d'etat


  Overthrowing the government by sudden force
• Napoleon's finest moment/battle was the 1805 win against Austria and Russia
• Corsica


  An island owned by France where Napoleon was born
• Napoleon himself crowned Napoleon
• Continental System


  • To hurt Britain - If British lost their foreign trade
  • Forbade anyone in the French Empire to trade with Britain
• Guerilla warfare


  Tactics used by the Spanish against Napoleon
• British and the Duke of Wellington helped the Spanish fight Napoleon
• Wives of Napoleon


  • Josephine
  • Marie Louise from Austria, Duchess of Parma
• Plebiscite


  When the people vote yes or no
• Ferdinand VII (7th) will rule Spain
• Scorched earth policy


  The tactics of burned and destroying crops and everything else that the invaders need
• Napoleon spent 5 weeks on Elba which led to his downfall
• Horatio Nelson died during the Battle of Trafalgar in Spain in 1805
• Relationship between Louis 16th and 18th

  Brother
• Napoleon's body is in Paris in the dome of the Invalides
• Metternich


  Influenced the Congress of Vienna and was largely responsible for the policy of balance of power in Europe to ensure the stability of European governments
• Napoleon spread nationalism, his code, and ideals through Europe
• Napoleon ended the Holy Roman Empire
• It was weird that France was at the Congress of Vienna because they were the defeated party
• Congress of Vienna representatives

  • G.B - Viscount Castlereagh
  • Austrian - Prince Metternich - emperor of Austria was French
  • Russia - Czar Alexander the 1st
  • Prussia - King Frederick William the 3rd
  • French - Talleyrand - extremely rare that French is even there because they are the defeated and the cause of all the fighting - contribute solutions
• Reactionaries


  Extremists who not only oppose change but want to go back to old regime
• Switzerland was allowed to keep its constitution only if they remained neutral in wars
• The Bourbon kings were restored in France (Louis 18th) and Spain (Ferdinand VII)
• The Quadruple Alliance became the Quintuple Alliance in 1818 after France paid all its debt and fulfilled their terms
• Concert of Europe


  Precursor of European Union
• Britain, the Turks, and the Pope did not sign the Holy Alliance
• Metternich believed in absolute monarchy and hated liberalism
• Those who fought against Napoleon should be compensated
• • The Netherlands were rewarded by gaining the Austrian Netherlands
  • Austria were compensated by gaining the northern Italian states
  • Denmark helped Napoleon so they were punished - Norway was taken away and given to Sweden
  • Britain got islands: French West Indies, Mediterranean island of Malta, Helgoland, and Cape Colony
• The Grand Duchy of Warsaw belonged to Prussia before
• France's borders went back to 1792
• Significance  of Lord Bryon


  He was a british poet that died of the flu in greece 1824 while volunteering for the greeks independence 
• Significance of Carlsbad decrees

  This stopped the uprising in germany. It places students and faculty under strict watch. 
• Significance of the Treaty of Adrianople


  Gave independence to greeks
• 1. Significance of st helena

  The place where napoleon died and was sent to after defeat in waterloo