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The Legacy of the Revolution | The French Revolution
The French Revolution was the most fundamental event of the nineteenth century, and its meaning, its causes, and its impact continue to be debated.
One debate is whether there was an autonomous peasant revolution directed against feudalism imbedded within the larger revolution, with the peasants seeking their own road to capitalism. Clearly hostility to harvest dues and other seigneurial burdens had unified many rural communities to the point that protests continued well after the National Assembly had declared feudalism abolished.
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Leave a commentNapoleon’s Fall, 1813-1815 | Napoleon and Europe
The British had been the first to resist Napoleon successfully, at Trafalgar and on the economic battlefields of the Continental System. Then had come Spanish resistance, followed by Russian.
Now in 1813 almost every nation in Europe joined the final coalition against the French. Napoleon raised a new army, but he could not so readily replace the equipment lost in Russia. In October 1813 he lost the "Battle of the Nations," fought at Leipzig in Germany, necessitating his retreat into France.
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Leave a commentThe Russian Campaign, 1812-1813 | Napoleon and Europe
The event that defeated Napoleon's great designs was the French debacle in Russia. French actions after 1807 soon convinced Czar Alexander that Napoleon was not keeping the Tilsit bargain and was intruding on Russia's sphere in eastern Europe.
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Leave a commentGerman National Awakening | Napoleon and Europe
German intellectuals launched a campaign to check the great influence that the French language and French culture had gained over their divided lands.
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Leave a commentThe Peninsular War, 1808-1813 | Napoleon and Europe
In Europe the political and military consequences of the Continental System formed a decisive and disastrous chapter in Napoleonic history, a chapter that opened in 1807 when the emperor decided to impose the system on Britain's traditional ally, Portugal.
The Portuguese expedition furnished Napoleon with an excuse for the military occupation of neighboring Spain. In 1808 he overthrew the Spanish royal family and made his brother Joseph his puppet king of Spain.
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Leave a commentThe Continental System | Napoleon and Europe
Nowhere was Napoleon's imperialism more evident than in the Continental System. This was an attempt to regulate the economy of the whole Continent. It had a double aim: to build up the export trade of France and to cripple that of Britain.
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Leave a commentThe War, 1800-1807 | Napoleon and Europe
Napoleon had barely launched the Consulate when he took to the field again. The second coalition was falling to pieces.
Czar Paul of Russia alarmed Britain and Austria by his interest in Italy, and Britain offended him by retaining Malta, the headquarters of his Knights. Accordingly, the czar formed a Baltic League of Armed Neutrality linking Prussia, Sweden, and Denmark with Russia against Britain.
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Leave a commentNapoleon and Europe
To many in France, Napoleon was and remains the most brilliant ruler in French history.
To many Europeans, on the other hand, Napoleon was a foreigner who imposed French control and French reforms.
Napoleonic France succeeded in building up a vast and generally stable empire, but only at the cost of arousing the enmity of other European nations.
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Leave a commentEconomics | Napoleon and France
Political aims also governed the economic program of an emperor determined to promote national unity. French peasants wanted to be left alone to enjoy the new freedom acquired in 1789. Napoleon did little to disrupt them, except to raise army recruits.
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Summary | The French Revolution and Napoleon