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5. Revolution and Napoleonic Europe

5.1 The Revolution in France 5.2 The Revolution and Europe 5.3 The French Empire 5.4 Congress of Vienna

5.1 The Revolution in France

Causes • Debt • Poor Harvests • Enlightenment Ideals

Revolution • Estates General – First Estate – Second Estate – Third Estate • Tennis Court Oath

Outbreak • Fall of the Bastille • Great Fear • National Assembly – Department System – Banned Strikes/Guilds – Assignats – Civil Constitution of the Clergy (Jul. 1790)

• National Assembly (Sept. 1791) • Legislative Assembly (Oct 1791) – Jacobins – Declaration of War (April 1792)

• Rise of the Sans- Culottes • September Massacres • National Convention (Sept. 1792) – Alliance with “The Mountain”

National Convention • Expands war • Executes Louis XVI (January 1793) • Levee en Mass • Committee of Public Safety

“If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, amid revolution it is at the same time virtue and terror. Virtue, without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. Terror is nothing but prompt, severe, inflexible justice, it is therefore an emanation of virtue” – Maximillian Robespierre

• Fall of Robespierre • The Directory (1795-1799) • Conquests – Austrian Netherlands (1794) – Dutch Republic (1795)

5.2 The Revolution and Europe

• Resistance • Reassessment • Revolution

Resistance • Wars of the Coalitions – Great Britain • “Spanish Ulcer”

Reassessment • Prussia – Battle of Jena and Auerstadt • Military Reforms • An Mein Volk (17 March 1813)

Revolution • Holy Roman Empire • Duchy of Warsaw

5.3 The French Empire

The Rise of Napoleon • The Directory • Italian Campaign • Egyptian Campaign • 18 Brumaire 1799 and the Consulate

Napoleon in Power • Consulate to Empire (1804) – Concordat with the Catholic Church (1801) – Peace of Amiens (1802) – Civil Code/Napoleonic Code (1804)

Napoleonic Wars • War of the Third Coalition (1803-1806) • War of the Fourth Coalition (1806-1807) • War of the Fifth Coalition (1809) • Great Britain and Trafalgar • Continental System

Fall of Napoleon • Invasion of Russia (1812) • Battle of Leipzig (1813) • Napoleon Exiled: Take One (Elba) • “100 Days” and Waterloo • Napoleon Exiled: Take Two (St. Helena)