poleon instituted the Continental System (a blockade) to try and stop British trade with France and her allies. Napoleon’s marriage with Empress Josephine ended in 1809 because she could not produce him an heir, so he harried Marrie Louise of Austria and had Napoleon II(History Channel.com).Napoleon’s first weakness had appeared in the Peninsular War in 1808-1814, and his alliance with Russia was tenuous(History Channel). In 1812 Czar Alexander I rejected the Continental System, so Napoleon invaded Russia with the 500,000-strong Grande Armee. He Won the battle of Borodino then went to Moscow where lack of supplies forcing him to run away(History Channel.com). Then Prussia turned against France and joined Britain, Sweden, and Austria in the fight against Napoleon(Biography.com). The Allies then defeated the emperor at Leipzig in October of 1813 and pursued him into France, taking Paris, in March of 1814, on the way(history Channel.com).Napoleon abdicated on April 11, 1814 and was exiled to the island of Elba, which the allies gave him as a sovereign principality. The allies were deliberating at the Congress of Vienna when Napoleon returned to march on Paris(Biography.com). When King Louis XVIII saw this he fled and Napoleon ruled for the time period known as “The Hundred Days”(History Channel.com). Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, by the combined efforts of Wellington and Blucher(Biography.com), during his Waterloo Campaign (June 12-18, 1815) and abdicated once more(History Channel.com). He was sent as a prisoner of war to the British island of St. Helena, he died there of stomach cancer on May 5, 1821. His remains were returned to Paris in 1840(History Channel.com).Napoleon,(1769-1821) a man of great stature for such a short being. He defeated the British numerous times. He defeated Prussia, and Russia. He was first consul for life and crowned king then emperor. Exiled but not defeated, coming back to rule for...
