The Most Important Battles

1789: Participate in the uprising in Corsica.

1793: Gets promoted to brigadier general for his war merits.

1795: Save the National Convention (Republican revolutionary French government) of a Parisian insurrection.

1796: Appointed chief of army general in Italy, obtained numerous victories. He married Josephine de Beauharnais.

1798-1799: Campaigns Italy and Egypt.

1799: Fails to conquer Syria and returned to France. Seizes power in France through a coup. He was appointed First Consul, which happened to be the main ruler of France with dictatorial powers.

1800: Beat Australia at the Battle of Marengo and consolidated his conquests in northem Italy. New Constitution.

1804: Emperor of the French in Notre Dame.

1805: Beat Austria and Russia at the battle of Austerlitz.

1806: establishes the Confederation of the Rhine and now controls Poland. It creates the Continental System, designed to block and ruin the English trade.

1807: Invade Portugal.

1808: King of Spain appoints his brother, Joseph I. War of Independence from Spain and Portugal, which will last six years.

1809: is annexed Rome and the Papal States. Annulment of his marriage to Josephine.

1812: Disastrous Russian campaign.