Social Sciences and History / Unit 4 SSH 0323 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Napoleon: Code, Conquest, Nationalism
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The idea
Napoleon rose through the Directorate's wars, a genius of logistics. He founded the Bank of France in eighteen hundred and the Civil Code of eighteen oh four, and exported legal equality, the end of serfdom and toleration.
In practice
Six hundred thousand marching on Russia in eighteen twelve; Elba; Waterloo.
Where people slip
The empire weakened nobilities; its plunder provoked the nationalism that outlived it.
Your place on the trail
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