1. Napoleon
● He was born in Corsica
● He led successful campaigns
against the First and Second
Coalitions.
● In 1799, he staged a coup
d'état.
● Five years later the French
Senate declared him Emperor
(1804)
● Napoleon kept up their
influence
● Napoleon's campaigns are
studied at military schools all
over the world
2. REFORMS
● Consolidated the
Revolution
● Spread around it
● Allowed the return of
exiles.
● Restore the religous peace
● Consolidated centralism
● Created the figure of
prefect
● Made a civil code
● Reformed educational
system
6. Burnt land
● In the winter of 1812 came
early and was extremely
cold. Frost-bitten and famine-
stricken(golpeados por ),
exhausted by rearguard
clashes(conflicto de
retaguardia) and partisan
raids(asaltos partisanos),
Napoleon’s Grande Army
was shrinking
(mermada)rapidly. The
emperor led his troops to
Smolensk, where he hoped
to find food and shelter, but
there was no food and no
warm quarters in the war-
ravaged(escaramuzas) city.
