What events led to Napolean's downfall and describe his exile.?

Answer 1

Napoleon Bonaparte was the dictator of France from 1799 to 1815. One overriding factor was his attempt to basically take over Europe. If he had settled for France being the strongest country in the world, he could have maintained that. I will focus on his downfall.

He made two key blunders. First, he put his brother Joseph on the throne as king of Spain. The Spanish being a proud people bitterly resisted this. With the help of Great Britain, "The Spanish Ulcer," was a great plague to Napoleon. Even without Russia, the continued resistance would have greatly threatened France. Second, was Napoleon's invasion of Russia in which he lost most of his six hundred thousand troops in this total fisaco; it was a complete defeat.

Napoleon rushed backed from Russia in l812 to be defeated at Leipzig. He was then exiled at Elba. Napoleon then escaped from Elba only to be defeated for the last time at Waterloo. He was then exiled much further away at St. Helena in Africa, where he died.

Answer 2

The signal event that led to Napolean's downfall was when the idea first came to him to Invade and conquer Russia. Putting this idea into action shows what an egomaniacal fool Napolean truly was.

In September 1812, during the Napoleonic Wars, the city was occupied by the armies of Napoleon. Russian patriots set fire to the city soon after his entry, the resultant French withdrawl from Russia led to Napolean's downfall. Following the Treaty of Fontainebleau, Napoleon I was exiled to Elba after his forced abdication in 1814. He was allowed to keep a personal guard of six hundred men and was made the Emperor of the island. Although he was nominally sovereign of Elba, the island was watched (more or less) by British naval patrols. During these months, partly to pass the time and partly out of a genuine concern for the well-being of the people, he carried out a series of economic and social reforms to improve the quality of life on Elba. Napoleon stayed on Elba for 9 months and 21 days before he escaped and returned to France on February 26 for a Hundred Days. After his defeat at Waterloo he was exiled again, to the barren and isolated South Atlantic island of Saint Helena. Napoleon's stay on Elba is the basis for the famous English language palindrome: "Able was I ere I saw Elba."

Answer 3

Elba And Saint Helena

Answer 4

Britain, protected by the English Channel and her navy, was persistently active; and rebellion both of the governing and of the governed broke out everywhere. Napoleon felt his failure in coping with the Spanish Uprising, which he underrated, while yet unable to suppress it altogether. Men like Stein, Hardenberg and Scharnhorst had secretly started preparing Prussia's retaliation.

Napoleon's formidable material power could not stand against the moral force of the pope, now a prisoner at Fontainebleau; and this he did not realise. The alliance arranged at Tilsit was seriously shaken by the Austrian marriage, the threat of a Polish restoration, and the unfriendly policy of Napoleon at Constantinople. The very persons whom he had placed in power were counteracting his plans: after four years' experience Napoleon found himself obliged to treat his Corsican dynasties like those of the ancien régime, and all his relations were betraying him. Caroline Bonaparte conspired against her brother and against her husband Murat; the hypochondriac Louis, now Dutch in his sympathies, found the supervision of the blockade taken from him, and also the defence of the Scheldt, which he had refused to ensure; Jerome Bonaparte, idling in his harem, lost that of the North Sea shores; and Joseph, who was attempting the moral conquest of Spain, was continually insulted at Madrid. The very nature of things was against the new dynasties, as it had been against the old.

After national insurrections and family recriminations came treachery from Napoleon's ministers. Talleyrand betrayed his designs to Metternich and suffered dismissal; Fouché corresponded with Austria in 1809 and 1810, entered into an understanding with Louis, and also with Britain; while Bourrienne was convicted of speculation. By a natural consequence of the spirit of conquest Napoleon had aroused, all these parvenus, having tasted victory, dreamed of sovereign power: Bernadotte, who had helped him to the Consulate, played Napoleon false to win the crown of Sweden; Soult, like Murat, coveted the Spanish throne after that of Portugal, thus anticipating the treason of 1813 and the defection of 1814; many persons hoped for "an accident" which might resemble the tragic ends of Alexander the Great and of Julius Caesar.

The country itself, besides, though flattered by conquests, was tired of self-sacrifice .

The end appeared during the years before when, instead of the armies and governments of the old system, which had hitherto reigned supreme, the nations of Europe themselves conspired against France. And while the Emperor and his holdings idled and worsened the rest of Europe agreed to avenge the events of 1792. The three campaigns of two years (1812–14) would bring total catastrophe to the French Empire

Answer 5

the Russians didn't fight him they moved and he need supplies so he was forced to retreat his exile he went to an island in the med