Video:
Audio:
Recommended Reading:
- Powerpoint presentation
- Biographies of Napoleon abound; subscribers to this site may find Paul Johnson’s the most enjoyable.
- Napoleon’s memoirs are also available.
- Those interested in military strategy and tactics will be interested in David Chandler’s exhaustive The Campaigns of Napoleon. Jeremy Black, one of the most popular historians of Georgian Britain, has written an account of the Battle of Waterloo.
Napoleon – Quiz
- Upon overthrowing the Directory, Napoleon took the title ___________________, but later crowned himself _________________.
- Explain the terms of Napoleon’s concordat with Rome in 1801.
- The Napoleonic Code showed the influence of the _________________.
- Napoleon’s greatest victory on land was at _______________ in 1805, whereas his greatest defeat on sea was at _________________ the same year.
- In 1812, Napoleon made the strategic error of invading ______________.
- Napoleon’s first exile was to _______; his second was to ________________.
- Napoleon’s last campaign ended in defeat at the hands of the English and Prussian armies at the Battle of ____________.
- First Consul; emperor
- Roman Catholic church was again recognized in France; France nominates bishops; Rome gives up claims to most property seized
- Enlightenment
- Austerlitz; Trafalgar
- Russia
- Elba; St. Helena
- Waterloo