Napoleonic Era Timeline

Napolean drives out the British from port in Toulou

Battle of Austerlitz

Egyptian Expedition -Napolean attempts to seize Egypt to stop British access to India -Discover the Rosetta Stone

Battle of the Nile -British General Horatio Nelson defeats French Naval Forces. -Napolean sneaks past British blockade in Mediterranean -Took control of the Directory by Coup d' e'tat -Set up 3-man consulate

Napoleon is Consul for life

Napolean crowns himself Emperor -Uses plebiscites to gain support -Creates Democratic Despotism

Concordat of 1801- Church under government control

France attempts to invade Great Britain on sea -Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats him at the Battle of Trafalgar. -Nelson was killed in battle

The Continental System and British blockades spark the war of 1812

Continental System is created

Peninsular War Is war between Spain and Portugal

Battle of Wagram French defeat Austria

France invades Russia Russia responds with Scorched Earth Protocol The Grand Arme'e goes from 600,000 soldiers to 20,000

Quadruple Alliance comprised of Austria, Great Britain, Prussia and Russia Defeat Napoleon at the "Battle of the Nations" in Leipzig

Napoleon is abdicated and exiled to Elba in the Mediterranean Louis XVIII is returned to power in France

The Hundred Days After Napoleon escapes Elba, he is returned to power in France and fights at the "Battle of Waterloo" in Belgium Napoleon is defeated and is exiled to St. Helena in the South Pacific.

Napoleon Dies in St. Helena