Powerpoint on the fall of Napoleon's Empire

2.  Napoleon’s three mistakes
 Defeat at Leipzig and first Exile
 Return and Final Defeat at Waterloo
 What Next?

3.  Goal to have
European
Continent self
sufficient
 Cut off Britain
 Smugglers
 Too big of an area
to patrol
 Britain has own
blockade

4.  Portugal not listening to Blockade
 Sends Army through Spain
 Spanish civilians up rise against French
 Deposed King and put brother on throne
 Guerilla tactics
 Rise of Spanish nationalism

5.  Napoleon’s appetite for more land and
power.

6.  Russia selling grain to Britain
 Both had eyes on Poland
 Invasion in 1812
 French Army now consists of draftees
 Army reaches Moscow on Sept 14

8.  Czar Alexander burns it
 Napoleon waits 5 weeks before retreating
 Russian Forces attack
 Only 10,000 men fit to fight

10. What do you think was
Napoleon’s biggest mistake? Are
they mutually exclusive?

11.  Prussia, Russia, Austria and England join
forces quickly after failure in Russia
 Army consists of untrained soldiers
 Decimated at Leipzig

12.  Armies march on Paris
 April Napoleon Abdicates
the throne

14.  Louis XVIII
 Unpopular throughout France
 Peasants thought he would undo land
reforms

16.  Spent Nine months on
Elba
 Escaped after hearing
of troubles in France
 Amassed another
Army
 Becomes Emperor of
France again
 Europe joins forces

17.  June 15th 1815
 British forces hold off
Napoleons Army
 Prussians come and
finish off French

19.  Agrees to Abdicate
throne again
 Sent to South Atlantic
this time

21.  How to divide French Empire?
 Who gains power in France and what kind
of government?
 How do you ensure someone does not try
this again.
 Congress of Vienna will decide this.