Question

What were the causes of rise and downfall of napoleon bonaparte answer?

Answer 1

RISE OF NAPOLEON;

1.THE POLITICAL INSTABILITY OF DIRECTORY PAVED  WAY FOR HIS RISE

2.AFTER CROWNING HIMSELF IN 1804 HE WENT OUT TO CONQUER OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES,CREATED KINGDOM AND PLACED HIUS FAMILY MEMBERS

3. INITIALLY HE WAS VIEWED AS LIBERATOR WHO WOULD BRING FREEDOM

4.HE INTRODUCED LAW OF PRIVATE PROPERTY

5. HE CREATED UNIFORM SYSTEM OF MEASUREMENT

DOWNFALL;

BUT SOON NAPOLEON ARMIES CAME TO BE VIEWED AS AN INVADING FORCE HE WAS FINALLY DEFEATED AT WATERLOO IN 1815.

Answer 2

Explanation:

The causes of the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte:

Personal Factors:  

• The personality of Napoleon
• Education and talents
• Exclusive opportunities
• Interpersonal relationship with influential people
• Highly ambitious nature
• Family background and father’s role.
• Military and scientific knowledge

Political Factors:

• The ‘French Revolution’
• Failure of the Directory Government
• Corsica annexation
• Brumaire Coup

The causes of the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte:

• Lack of a strong naval force and sea power weakened the threat to the British
• Continental system
• Starvation threats
• The 1812 campaign in Moscow
• Napoleon’s misjudgments, underestimation and miscalculation of the power of British and Russian forces and the eventual loss of the battles like the Battle of Talavera, Battle of Waterloo.
• “Taxations and failure” of the Continental system.