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Down: 1)  ______ __ __________ended any chance that Napoleon could ever invade England so he struck at her economically through the Continental System2) The Russians burned the crops, villages, farms and cities as they retreated. This “scorched earth” policy continued for about 800 miles before the Russians turned and laid vengeance on the French at the __________ __ _____________ on Sept. 1, 1812. Napoleon described it as “the most terrible of all my battles.”3) Napoleon wanted to accomplish this before news of the disaster in Egypt reached Paris. Conspiring with two of the Directors he staged a coup, deposed the other 3 Directors and set up a new government called ____ _______________4) a black slave leader named __________ ___________dashed these dreams by leading a slave rebellion in Haiti that ended in the deaths of all white Frenchmen who were unable to escape to Louisiana5) Nelson and his fleet met them off the coast of Spain and wiped up the decks in the ________ ___ __________ __6) As Nelson watched from aboard the ____ ____________, a young French soldier drew a bead on him from atop the rigging and blew him away with a musket ball. The English, elated by the victory and saddened by Nelson‟s death, stuffed him in a barrel of rum (to preserve him) and returned to England for a state funeral7) The original stone is in a British museum in London, but a cast was made of the stone before the British defeated the French in Egypt and it was the cast that Champollion would eventually decipher. 9) The Allies stripped Napoleon of his throne and restored the Bourbons to the French throne in the person of ____ _____10) The Russian army lurched forward and __________ __________ led them to victory. 11) The Russian artillery opened up while the ______(Russian cavalrymen) thundered through the French ranks. The wolves began eating live soldiers because the dead ones froze too quickly12) It had been exactly 100 days from the escape from Elba to the ___________ _ _____________13) In 1812 Napoleon stood at the pinnacle of power. He had subdued or neutralized the European continent and, after divorcing _________________,16) England was cut off from Russian trade markets as well. 18) They put him on an island 2000 miles down in the south Atlantic called ___ ____________ Across: 8) You won‟t believe what the Allies did with Napoleon. They gave him a tiny little island called ____ between Corsica and Italy and let him be emperor of that14) It was an “agreement” forced upon the nations of Europe, all of which Napoleon controlled, to refuse to trade with England.15) At the time, the mingled mess of law and jurisprudence had its roots in the Middle Ages. It was swept away and replaced with _________ __________, a clear statement of Roman legal principles applicable to all Frenchmen This act earned him the title “Preserver of the Revolution” and is his chief legacy to the world today. It is also still the law of Louisiana, so if you want to practice law in Louisiana you‟d better go to Tulane or Loyola because all other states teach English Common Law17) This Fifth Alliance (_______, Russia-Austria-Prussia-England) combined to destroy Napoleon‟s remaining armies in a series of gigantic battles. The allies occupied Paris and most of France and closed in on Napoleon19) It was an “agreement” forced upon the nations of Europe, all of which Napoleon controlled, to refuse to trade with England.20) With Haiti gone and the British fleet between him and the New World, Napoleon sold the land to __________ __________, President of an emerging nation known as the United States, for the sum of $15 million in 1803. 21) Napoleon did not control Russia so he made Czar Alexander I a deal he couldn‟t refuse. They signed the Treaty of Tilsit ___ ____and his army maintained a stony silence and waited for their greatest general to arrive. The first snowflakes fell on October 15. Four days later, Napoleon ordered his army to retreat because they were in their summer uniforms22) In preparation for world conquest, Napoleon first set to clean up the mess in France left behind by 10 years of chaos, and he did a marvelous job of it. His administrative system is still used in France and some other European countries as well. His greatest achievement was the _____________ _____ ___ ___________
 

 

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