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| French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821) |
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| a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force |
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| The direct vote of all the members of an electorate on an important public question such as a change in the constitution |
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| secondary school: a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12 |
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| An agreement or treaty, esp. one between the Vatican and a secular government relating to matters of mutual interest |
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| is the French civil code, established under Napoléon I in 1804. The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs go to the most qualified. |
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| was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815). |
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| An act of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving |
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| was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during the Napoleonic Wars. It was a large-scale embargo against British trade, inaugurated on November 21, 1806. |
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| is a form of irregular warfare and refers to conflicts in which a small group of combatants including, but not limited to, armed civilians (or "regulars") use military tactics, like ambushes, sabotage, raids. |
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| was a contest between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. |
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| the burning of grain fields and slaughtering livestock so as to leave nothing for the enemy to eat. |
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| a town in central Belgium where in 1815 Napoleon met his final defeat |
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| the brief period during 1815 when Napoleon made his last bid for power,deposing the French King and again becoming Emperor of France |
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