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Napoleon’s Empire Collapses
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Napoleon’s 3 Mistakes
1. Continental System2. Peninsular War3. Invasion of Russia
Continental System• Blockade – forcible closing of ports
preventing trade• Napoleon does this with Britain–Doesn’t work
Peninsular War
• Napoleon sends army through Spain to Portugal – defying Continental System–Spain protests – Napoleon makes his
brother king• 5 yrs Spanish guerrillas fight French• Napoleon loses 300,000 men
Invasion of Russia
• Russia ignores Continental System• Alexander I uses scorched-earth policy –
burning grain fields and slaughtering livestock leaving nothing to eat–Burns Moscow
• All this and Russian winter (-30 F) decimate French Army
Defeat• Napoleon defeated
at Leipzig–Coalition move
toward Paris
Elba
• Napoleon banished to island of Elbe
• Put Louis XVIII in power – unpopular
• Napoleon escapes and retakes power
Hundred Days• Napoleon gets army together again – 100
days• Defeated at Waterloo, Belgium• Banished to St. Helena in South Atlantic