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2007-01-11 14:40:07 · 7 answers · asked by hannah. 2 in Arts & Humanities History

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Very simple, because the French revolution and military knowledge allowed him to amass armies the size of which had not seen since the Roman Empire.

The French Revolution brought conscription, the ability to make an entire generation of men join the army and believe in the republic. Other armies depended on the King raising a semimercenary force, which was always smaller than a conscript levy. Besides, the Revolution allowed officers trained at the War Academy to raise to the highest ranks based on merit, wheras other countries still only granted these offices to the nobility. Napoleon had 3 times more men and far better officers than his enemies.

Furthermore, he inherited the division, a new breaktrhough in military science developed by the French which allowed a field unit to stand on its own without any support from other units (it had its own cavalry, artillery, infrantry, and logistics). That gave Napoleon ability to move his units with more flexibility.

And finally, Napoleon was a master of using artillery to break havoc in infantry ranks and the awareness that the armies he had allowed him to seek open battle instead of old-style manouvering around fortresses like oter armies used to fight.

2007-01-11 20:09:41 · answer #1 · answered by Historygeek 4 · 0 0

1) The french revolution overthrow the monarchy.
2) Other nations declare war upon France in order to restore the monarchy. In this period of war, an obscure captain of artillery rises to general. His name rises about the rest: Napoleon.
3) The french republic defeats her enemies but chaos at home creates a political vacuum with various regimes following each other evert 3-4 years. The latest one, the Directory (1) was such a failure that Napoleon creates a coup d'état (2) and establishes the Consultate.
(4) Napoleon consolidates his power, eliminates (exile mostly) his enemies & defeats the other nations. Napoleon was genuinely popular among many voters, and after a period of strife many in France were reassured by his dazzling but unconvincing and unsuccessful offers of peace to the victorious Second Coalition, his rapid disarmament of La Vendée, and his talk of stability of government, order, justice and moderation. He gave everyone a feeling that France was governed once more by a real statesman, and that a competent government was finally in charge.
5) Following a massive outbreak of support following a failed assassination attempt he in turn took advantage of to put the crowning touch to his ambitious dream. On 18 May 1804 the French Senate voted to give Bonaparte the title of emperor, a move that was ratified by yet another public referendum on the same day. The Emperor Napoleon I crowned himself later that same year - the Consulate had passed away in favour of the Empire.
6) The other nations then either willing joined the Empire or had parts of their countries annexed following wars of consolidation. (4)

This is how he etablished the empire.

2007-01-11 15:28:11 · answer #2 · answered by Carl 3 · 0 1

By taking the incredibly barbaric Gauls and turning them into the great army, He swooped down on the fallen crown of France and gave them dignity again after the revolution and got even with the other countries that had planned their demise. He took those same morons and made them into real soldiers. Now that they had made pigs out of themselves he wanted to show the world he could put a uniform on a pig and they were now a fighting pig and one loyal to him. ha ha . He met his Waterloo too, ha ha
The ignorance that mankind does with all their vendettas? To what good end? He created an Empire indeed, and was quite the little Emperor. To find out the facts of Napolean, go to www.history.com and you will see magnificent pictures on the little corporal and audio/visuals as well as the jewels he acquired.
His domination of Sweden was incredibly done as well. His love for Desiree, and his wife. His brother and the reign of a true Frenchman

2007-01-11 15:15:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

The Empire started when Napoleon became Emperor of the French on May 18, 1804 and was crowned on December 2 of the same year at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Its existence was immediately threatened by the War of the Third Coalition, but the decisive French victory at the Battle of Austerlitz ensured its survival. La Grande Armée, the Empire's military machine, then fought against Prussia in 1806 and all but destroyed Prussia's armies before swinging into Poland and defeating the Russians at the Battle of Friedland in 1807.
After Friedland, the Treaty of Tilsit in July 1807 ended two years of bloodshed on the European continent. French involvement in Iberia eventually sparked the Peninsular War, a brutal six-year conflict that severely weakened the First Empire.
In 1809, France and Austria fought the War of the Fifth Coalition; France triumphed again and imposed the Treaty of Schönbrunn on the Habsburgs, but diplomatic tensions with Russia led to the catastrophic invasion of that country in 1812. The War of the Sixth Coalition saw the expulsion of French forces from Germany in 1813 and the abdication of Napoleon on April 6, 1814. Napoleon returned from Elba in 1815, but the French defeat at the Battle of Waterloo caused the ultimate downfall of the First Empire.

At its height in 1812, the French Empire had 130 départments, deployed over 600,000 troops to attack Russia, ruled over 44 million subjects, maintained extensive military presence in Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Duchy of Warsaw, and could count Prussia and Austria as nominal allies.
The fate of the Empire was inextricably linked to that of the army, whose early victories exported many ideological features of the French Revolution throughout Europe. Seigneurial dues and seigneurial justice were abolished wherever French armies went, aristocratic privileges were eliminated in all places except Poland, and the introduction of the Napoleonic Code throughout the continent made all people equal before the law, established jury systems, and legalized divorce.
However, Napoleon's domination was highly nepotistic as he often placed relatives on the thrones of Europe. Resentment over French occupation was an important factor in the explosion of nationalism in places like Italy and Germany, which would both become nations a few decades later. The French Empire severely upset international relations in the early nineteenth century, but the Congress of Vienna in 1815 finally reversed this trend by instituting a balance of power system in Europe.

2007-01-11 15:42:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

He organized a series of meetings and negotiated until everyone agreed that he should be in charge.
NO! Just kidding.
He organized a really big army, provided it with efficient supply lines and kicked everyone else's butts, at least for a little while.

2007-01-12 07:04:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

By taking charge of the French army and knocking out his opponents in battle and giving royal titles to his siblings.

2007-01-11 15:56:11 · answer #6 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0 0

He built a large army, Le Grand Armee.

2007-01-11 14:46:05 · answer #7 · answered by Beachman 5 · 1 1

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