How would you explain the rise of napoleon?
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NAPOLEON’S RISE TO POWER
Since 1792, France’s revolutionary government had been engaged in military conflicts with various European nations. In 1796, Napoleon commanded a French army that defeated the larger armies of Austria, one of his country’s primary rivals, in a series of battles in Italy. In 1797, France and Austria signed the Treaty of Campo Formio, resulting in territorial gains for the French.
The following year, the Directory, the five person group that had governed France since 1795, offered to let Napoleon lead an invasion of England. Napoleon determined that France’s naval forces were not yet ready to go up against the superior British Royal Navy. Instead, he proposed an invasion of Egypt in an effort to wipe out British trade routes with India. Napoleon’s troops scored a victory against Egypt’s military rulers, the Mamluks, at the Battle of the Pyramids in July 1798; soon, however, his forces were stranded after his naval fleet was nearly decimated by the British at the Battle of the Nile in August 1798. In early 1799, Napoleon’s army launched an invasion of Ottoman-ruled Syria, which ended with the failed siege of Acre, located in modern day Israel. That summer, with the political situation in France marked by uncertainty, the every ambitious and cunning Napoleon opted to abandon his army in Egypt and return to France.
1. France, during the reign of terror, was ruled by the Committee of Public Safety. This committee considered monopoly as a serious crime because it observed the traditional, class-based system of economics that led to the Revolution in France.
2. The members of this society wanted everyone to have equal access for the basic goods.
3. The leader of this group was Robespierre (who was also the leader of the Jacobin club).
4. The Jacobin club observed the supreme egalitarianism and persecution and assisted the Revolutionary government in France. Accordingly, mass slaughter and public violence observed during this period.
5. Ultimately, Napoleon Bonaparte put an end to this condition and the Republic. And though France had a constitution Napoleon governed as a despot.