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Napoleonic Battles
YGK These Napoleonic Battles
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The coup where Napoleon defended the revolutionary government with artillery fire in October 1795 | Coup of 13 Vendémiaire |
| The 1797 treaty Napoleon forced Austria to sign after his Italian battlefield victories | Treaty of Campo Formio |
| The expedition Napoleon led in 1798 whose scientific team discovered the Rosetta Stone | Egyptian expedition |
| The 1798 battle where Napoleon supposedly cried, “Soldiers, forty centuries look down upon you,” defeating the Mamluks | Battle of the Pyramids |
| The 1798 naval battle in Aboukir Bay where the Royal Navy under Lord Horatio Nelson interrupted French communications, forcing Napoleon to abandon his army | Battle of the Nile |
| The coup in November 1799 that brought down France’s Directory government and made Napoleon “first consul” | Coup of 18 Brumaire |
| The 1800 battle where Napoleon’s forces, aided by General Louis Desaix's reinforcements, drove off the Austrians in northern Italy | Battle of Marengo |
| The 1805 naval battle off the coast of Spain where Lord Horatio Nelson’s Royal Navy defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet, ending Napoleon's invasion plans for Britain | Battle of Trafalgar |
| Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, which flew the signal “England expects that every man will do his duty” | HMS Victory |
| The 1805 battle in the Czech Republic, also known as the “Battle of the Three Emperors,” where Napoleon seized the Pratzen Heights to defeat the Austrian and Russian coalition army | Battle of Austerlitz |
| The treaty that ended the War of the Third Coalition and brought about the downfall of the Holy Roman Empire after Austerlitz | Peace of Pressburg |
| The twin 1806 battles where Napoleon and Marshal Davout smashed the Prussian army | Jena-Auerstedt |
| The war (1807–1814) fought in Spain and Portugal against Napoleon’s brother Joseph, characterized by early "guerrilla" warfare | Peninsular War |
| The British commander who triumphed over Marshal Marmont at the 1812 Battle of Salamanca | Duke of Wellington |
| The 1812 battle slowing Napoleon's invasion of Russia, where Marshal Kutuzov's army was driven out of fortified redoubts | Battle of Borodino |
| The policy that Tsar Alexander I refused to agree to, which was a Europe-wide embargo on British trade | Continental System |
| The 1813 battle in central Germany where a Sixth Coalition army met Napoleon’s replacement army; known as the “Battle of the Nations” | Battle of Leipzig |
| The island in the Mediterranean where Napoleon was exiled after his abdication in 1814 | Elba |
| The period marking Napoleon’s escape from exile and return to the throne | The Hundred Days |
| The final struggle between the restored Napoleon and the “Seventh Coalition,” beginning when the French Army marched into the Low Countries | Waterloo |
| The period after Napoleon's escape from Elba and return to the French throne | The "Hundred Days" |
| The two preliminary battles on June 16, 1815 where the French brushed aside Allied advance guards before Waterloo | Quatre Bras and Ligny |
| The battle where the Duke of Wellington set up a defensive position at the crossroads of Mont St. Jean for the Seventh Coalition forces | Waterloo (1815) |
| The fortified farm defended by British troops on the French left at Waterloo | Hougoumont |
| The French Marshal whose massed cavalry charge was broken by the square formations of the British infantry at Waterloo | Marshal Michel Ney |
| The general who commanded the Prussian army that arrived to attack the French army in the flank at Waterloo | Gebhard von Blücher |
| The elite French forces committed by Napoleon to a final, failed assault on the Allied center at Waterloo | Imperial Guard |
| The isolated South Atlantic island where Napoleon was exiled after his final defeat at Waterloo, where he died in 1821 | St. Helena |
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