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Napoleon Part 4: The End
1. Where did Napoleon send 115,000 soldiers in 1808? Did the people welcome these troops as Napoleon anticipated?
2. What did the Spanish do in Madrid on May 2, 1808? How did the French respond to this?
3. How was the war in Spain different than the other wars Napoleon's troops had fought before this? How long did the French armies stay in Spain?
4. What did Napoleon do to Josephine in 1810 and why? Who does Napoleon marry on April 2, 1810? Why did Napoleon choose this particular girl?
5. What did Tsar Alexander do in 1811?
7. What did Napoleon do in the spring of 1812? How many men did Napoleon take?
8. What did the Russians refuse to do as Napoleon's troops marched across Russia? How many of Napoleon's troops were out of action before they had ever fought a single battle in Russia?
9. What did the Russians do to Moscow once Napoleon's troops occupied it? How would this hurt Napoleon's army?
10. What happened 3 weeks after Napoleon's troops left Moscow? What did this do to Napoleon's army?
11. What did Napoleon do on December 5, 1812? How many of Napoleon's 600,000 men made it back to France?
12. What did Britain, Russia, Sweden, and Prussia do when Napoleon's army was destroyed in France? How many men did the French lose in 2 months of fighting?
13. What city did the Allies occupy by March 15, 1813? What did Napoleon do on April 12, 1813?
14. What island did the British exile Napoleon to? What title did they give him?
15. What type of new government was installed in France after Napoleon? How popular was that government?
16. What did Napoleon do on February 26, 1815? What did the French soldiers do when they first saw Napoleon?
17. How did the allies react when they heard that Napoleon had returned? Where did Napoleon's army march to in order to attack the allies?
18. What was the Duke of Wellington depending on in order to defeat Napoleon's army?
21. Why did Napoleon not order his troops to attack at dawn on the morning of June 16th?
22. Who did Napoleon send forward when he saw the Prussian Army getting to the battlefield at Waterloo? What happened to them?
23. What happened to the French Army once the Prussians arrived? How close did Wellington think the Battle of Waterloo was?
24. What did Napoleon do on June 22, 1815?
25. Where did the British send Napoleon this time?
27. How did Napoleon pass his time on St. Helena? How did Napoleon paint himself in his memoirs?
28. How long did Napoleon last on St. Helena? How old was he when he died?
29. What did Napoleon say is the only immortality?