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Duke of Wellington
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Also known as Sir Arthur Wellesley was the British commander of the allied forces of Britain, Prussia, and the Netherlands at Waterloo.
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Battle of the Pyramids
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The battle in which Napoleon defeated Turkish troops in Egypt.
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Louis XVIII
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The brother of Louis XVI who became king in France after Napoleon's defeat.
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Battle of the Nile
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The battle in which fleet was destroyed by the British adimiral Horatio Nelson in 1798 which stranded the French army in Egypt.
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The Hundred Days
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The period after Napoleons escape from Elba until his defeat at Waterloo.
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Coup d'etat of 1799
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Napoleon's siezer of power by force in France.
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Nationalism
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The love of one's country rather than the love of a region.
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"Whiff of Grapeshot"
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The term used by Napoleon to describe his dispersal of a Paris mob which save the diretory.
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The Consulate
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The name of the government set up in France by Napoleon in 1799
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Napoleonic Era
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Period from 1799-1815 in which Napoleon influenced mot of Europe and the world.
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Legitimacy
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Another guiding principle of the Congress of Vienna which menat restoring to power the royal families who had ruled before Napoleon.
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Napoleonic Wars
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The wars that Fracne fought from 1796-1815 against Europe.
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St. Helena
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The island in the South Atlantic to which Napoleon as exiled in 1815 and died in 1821.
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Continental System
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The attempt by Napoleon to blockaid British trade and destroy them economically.
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Napoleonic Code
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The organization and revision of all French laws and the basis of most legal codes in Europe
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Congress of Vienna
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The European conference to resore order and stability to Europe after the defeat of Napoleon.
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Liberalism
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Apolitical philosphy which believes in individual freedom and constitutional government.
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Compensation
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One of the three guiding principles of the congress of Vienna which meant that all countires should be repaid for their expenses of fighing the French.
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Concert of Europe
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The attempt by European antions to work together through regular meetings to preserve the peace.
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Joseph Bonaparte
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The brother of Napoleon who was made king of Spain.
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Battle of the Nations (Leipzig)
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The first battle defeat of Napoleon by allied forces in 1813.
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Elba
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The Mediterranean island given to Napoleon by the allies for his first exile.
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Russian Campaign
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Napoleons invasion of Russia and on eof the greatiest military distasters of al time in which Napoleon led 600,000 men into Russia but only 40,000 returned.
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Peninsula Campaign
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The rebellion against Fench rule in Spain lasting from 1808-1814 and which was the first sucess aginst Napoleon.
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Reactionaries
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People who oppose change and want to return things to the way they had been in earlier times.
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First French Empire
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Empire of Napoleon I.
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Battle of Trafalagar
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The 1805 destruction of the combined French and Spanish fleets by adimiral Nelson which ended Napoleon's plans for an invasion of Britain.
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Scorched Earth Policy
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The Russian practice of burning and destroying everything n the path of an invading army.
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Balance of Power
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The third guiding principle of the Congress of Vienna which meant that no country should ever again domintate continental Europe.
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Waterloo
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The final defeat of Napoleonon June 18,1815 by the allies.
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