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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - control of Italy and Central Europe
      - the dissolution of the Holy Empire (1806)
      - He invaded Spain
        
        ruled by his brother, José I
        
        His reign was unstable
        
        faced a long conflict
        
        British fleet won the Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
        
        taking control of the seas
    - - Napoleon tried to conquer Russia
        
        in 1812
        
        his army was heavily defeated
      - Napoleon’s defeat and exile in 1814
        
        due to
        
        The subsequent successes of the coalitions
        
        the interminable war in Spain
      - He briefly regained power
        
        In 1815
        
        Battle of Waterloo
        
        the British and their allies finally defeated Napoleo
  - - - concepts from the times of Louis XIV
  - - - Austria
      - Prussia
      - Russia
    - - Great Britain
        
        N. Bonaparte could not invade them
        
        Only solution
        
        continental blockade
        
        no British ship could dock in European ports
        
        result
        
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- - - - he had executive and legislative powers
      - he controlled the appointment of judges
    - - abolition of slavery
      - separation of powers
    - - he persecuted all opposition
        
        supporters of the Bourbon dynasty
        
        supporter of Jacobins and Republicans
        
        opposed to authoritarianism and the end of the Republic
    - - model for subsequent legal codes
        
        equality of all citizens before the law
        
        prohibited torture
        
        definitively separated aspects of civil life from the Church
        
        marriage and divorce
    - - Central Bank of France
        
        to centralise the minting of money
        
        finance his war campaigns
      - opening of Chambers of Commerce
        
        organisations to help with commercial exchanges
    - - reform the university
      - create secondary schools (during the Consulate)
      - high schools
    - - Court of Accounts
        
        oversee public finances
        
        draw up a budget with forecasts of government
        
        expenses
        
        income
  - - - to ensure his regime would continue
        
        the consolidation of his power
        
        his successes abroad
        
        internal stability after a decade of chaos
        
        he had fear of conspiracies against him
    - - not a sovereign by divine right as in the Old Regime
      - new type of emperor
        
        his legitimacy came from the French Revolution