NAPOLEON´S EMPIRE

1810

NAPOLEON´S CONTINENTAL SYSTEM

RUSSIA IGNORED NAPOLEON´S CONTINENTAL SYSTEM

NAPOLEON´S RUSSIAN

CAMPAIGN, 1812

FAILURE

COLD, HUNGRY AND DISEASE

“Russia has two generals she can trust– Generals January and

February.”

Tsar Nicholas I

DEFEATED BY GENERAL WINTER

PLOT AGAINST NAPOLEON

“FROM THE SUBLIME

TO THE RIDICULOUS.

THERE IS ONLY

ONE STEP.”

NAPOLEON

EXILED TO ELBA

LOUIS XVIII

France was to be ruled once more by a king, the oldest surviving

brother of Louis XVI:

THE `HUNDRED DAYS´

BACK IN POWER

THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO

EXILED TO ST. HELENA

OLIVER CROMWELL NAPOLEON BONAPARTE