HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Microsoft Onenote, Continental System, War Of The First Coalition
11 Dec 2015
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European leaders afraid french revolution would spill over into the rest of europe jeopardizing their own safety. First coalition: including austria , prussia, great britain, spain & holland (all united against france) France has conscription for all men: (lev e en masse) The directory 1795: 2 houses, 5 men (this made the power always divided) Asked napoleon to take full power once france was in a state of war - again. Napoleon: best known as a military genius, not actually short (5ft. Executes and imprisons political rivals (all politicians were handpicked by. November coup (1799) took over the directory replacing it with his own consulat taking the number of 5 men down to 3. Assumed more and more power, consulat was to hide that he was indeed the only true ruler at the time (gave the appearance of democracy but in reality it was the opposite) Plebiscites are referendums that allowed him to seek the approval of the.
