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 * The Napoleonic Empire **

====Napoleon wasn't satisfied to govern France, he wanted more to rule. His thoughts soon turned to conquest. At first, he wanted to extend French influence in the Western Hemisphere. In 1800, Napoleon forced Spain to surrender to France the Louisiana Territory in North America. But the army that he sent to take possession of the territory was destroyed. Napoleon abandoned his plans for the Western Hemisphere and turned his attention to Europe. So by 1803, France had annexed the Piedmont region of North Western Italy, by then Napoleon had became president of the Italian Republic. Napoleon was scared of the United Kingdom's naval power so he tried to stop British trade with the rest of Europe. He encourged the war with the United Kingdom and sold the Louisianna Territory to the United States to raise money for the war.====

**Rise of Napoleon**

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====Napoleon became emperor of the French on May 18, 1804 and was crowned emperor on December 2, 1804 which ended the period of the French consulant. He became emperor by over throwing the Directory and crowned himself king. Napoleon makes his family members royalty. He makes his brother king of Naples, and also appoints many of his family members to rule conqured land like Spain. He won many great battles as emperor. His efforts to crush Great Britain and expand the French Empire made him commit three big mistakes. Napoleon amde a blockade to the rest of the European nations but, Great Britain managed to help pirates transport good to France. In response to the French blockade the British made their own blockade which was more effective than the French. Napoleon tried to conquer Portugal through Spain. In 1812 Napoleon tried to invade Russia. As the winter temperatures began to fall the Russian army attacked the French. This and other factor decreased the number of the Grand Army soldiers. Frances weakness inspired Britain, Russia, Prussia, Austria and Swede to join forces and declare war to France. Fance and their weakness lost the war. After losing the war it left Napoleons Empire very weak. Countries such as, Britain, Russia, Prussia, and Sweden joined forces to stl Napoleon's Empire. Louis XVIII became king but was having problems and as soon as Napoleon found out he came back to be emporer again. The allied armys came back to attack as soon as they heard he was ruler again. Napoleon lost the war. This war was called The Hundred Days war. After he was defeated he was sent away and lived in st. Helena and died there after 6 years.==== media type="custom" key="14135924" The rise of Napoleon