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Globl ch23 list 3,4
vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Napoleon Bonaparte | Military leader who seized power in France |
Coup d' etat | A sudden takeover of a government |
Plebiscite | Vote by the people |
Lycée | Government-run public school |
Concordat | Agreement |
Napoleonic Code | Complete set of laws set up by Napoleon that eliminated many injustices |
Battle of Trafalgar | British defeat of Napoleons forces at sea |
Blockade | Forced closing of ports |
Continental System | Napoleon's policy of preventing trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations |
Guerilla | Spanish peasant fighter |
Peninsular War | War that Napoleon fought in Spain |
Scorched-Earth Policy | Policy of burning fields and slaughtering livestock so that enemy troops would find nothing to eat |
Waterloo | Battle in Belgium that was Napoleon's final defeat |
Hundred Days | Napoleon's last bid for power, which ended at Waterloo |