an army at Ulm, and forced them to surrender. Two days later Admiral Nelson, the same man to defeat the French navy in Egypt, once again destroyed the French navy at the battle of Trafalgar. This forever ended Napoleon's hopes of invading England. Napoleon's armies kept fighting, capturing Vienna, the Austrian capital. On December 2 1805, Napoleon met the Austro-Russian army at Austerlitz. This was one of his best planed battles. When the morning light came he saw that the enemy had lined up in the exact order he had said they would. The victory was decisive, Napoleon made himself king of Italy, his brother Joseph, king of Naples, and another brother Louis king of Holland. The constitutional system was hurting Russia and Sweden. Finally, Russia started trading with England again. Napoleon gathered the " Grand Army" of about 500,000 men. In June 1812, Napoleon endeavored on a new campaign. This was one of the worst mistakes he ever made. This would ultimately lead to the death of an entire generation of French men. Napoleon and his 500,000 men marched into Russia. Napoleon believed that after a few quick victorious battles, he would be able to convince Alexander to return to the Continental System. He also decided that if he could take Moscow, the Russian government would breakdown and ask for peace. Napoleon was quoted as saying, "A single blow to the heart of the Russian Empire, at Moscow the Great, at Moscow the Holly, will instantly put this whole blind, apathetic mass at my mercy", (pg 6, 1812 Napoleon's Defeat in Russia ). Napoleon would soon learn how wrong he was. At the beginning of Napoleon's campaign he was fabulously victorious, but when he reached Moscow he found the city in ruins. Instead of giving in to Napoleon, Alexander had burned Moscow to the ground. Alexander knew that the winter was coming , and with no place to go Napoleon and his troops would be in grave danger. Alexander was right, Napoleon's lost many men to fro...
