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FALL OF NAPOLEON AND THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA

FALL OF NAPOLEON AND THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA. The defeat and the reaction. Russian Campaign. Napoleon attacks Russia because they were not going along with the Continental System (boycott of trade with England)

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FALL OF NAPOLEON AND THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA

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  1. FALL OF NAPOLEON AND THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA The defeat and the reaction

  2. Russian Campaign • Napoleon attacks Russia because they were not going along with the Continental System (boycott of trade with England) • He is forced to chase Russian troops across vast amounts of land- many desert, others starve • After taking Moscow (which had been deserted and burned) his men retreat and are caught in the Russian winter

  3. His fall and exile • 500,000 men were lost in the invasion • Other European countries join forces to defeat Napoleon in 1814 • He is forced to give up his throne and is exiled to the island of Elba • He escapes Elba, French King abdicates (gives up his throne) and he tries to regain power • Final defeat comes at Waterloo

  4. Congress of Vienna • Two major purposes: restore order and stability to Europe and to keep France from rising back to the power they had under Napoleon • Prince Klemens von Metternich of Austria becomes the leading force • His agenda is to undo the changes of the French Revolution

  5. Metternich’s Agenda • He changes national borders to weaken France, and to strengthen countries that had fought against France • Metternich also returns monarchies to power in France and countries that Napoleon had conquered • Liberal ideas( ideas of change, democracy, and human rights) are silenced

  6. End Results of Revolution • Monarchs all around the world knew that ideas of equality would always be around- they could never feel completely secure • People around the world had an example that they could change their government, that they could make a better world for themselves • Revolutions happen in Latin America, and throughout the 19th century

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