Christ the King, Lord of History – Flashcards

Battle fought on July 14, 1800 that gave Napoleon control of Northern Italy.

Bishops were nominated by Napoleon and approved by the Pope, and Church property in France was not restored

The government would pay the salaries of priests, and freedom of worship was guaranteed.

A code of ecclesiastical law, which put restrictions on the Church.

Bishops were forbidden to leave their diocese, the state would control the seminaries, and no religious marriage would be valid without a civil certificate.

Napoleon could not reconquer the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue, now Haiti, and so gave up his attempt

Napoleon sold this to the United States when he gave up trying to establish an empire in the New World

The British Naval fleet won.
The combined French and Spanish forces.
Nelson led the Britons to victory.
This battle was significant because it marked the end of French sea power.

The Russian and Austrian armies.

the Confederation of the Rhine was set up to govern under French domination most of the German territory of the Holy Roman Empire.

To weaken tradition and the Church’s influence and to indoctrinate children so that they would accept the Revolution and Napoleon’s influence.

November 21, 1806
It forbid all the countries under French dominion to trade with England, but it was mostly ineffective.
Pope Pius VII refused to go along with the blockade.

On July 5, 1809, Napoleon’s soldiers arrested Pope Pius VII but they had trouble finding a prison for him because no town wanted the responsibility of being the Pope’s jail.

June 13, 1808 – first skirmish; February 19, 1809 – final surrender.
The French won that battle, but were utterly devastated.

guerilla warfare; on average, about 100 soldiers per day

Rebel leader in the Tyrol region of Austria that continued to fight napoleon’s army even after the emperor had given up. He was captured after the final resistance and dragged to Mantua where Napoleon ordered him shot on February 20, 1810, before the court had reached a sentence.

The job of Andreas Hofer before he became the rebel leader

The defensive strategy that surrounded Lisbon and was conceived by Viscount Wellington of Talavera to hold off the French for five months at the cost of 25,000 French and 4,000 British soldiers

The British troops and Spanish guerillas led by Wellington won this battle against Joseph Bonaparte and the French. Spain belonged to the Spanish again.

Tactic of the Russian armies that prevented French soldiers from getting enough to eat on their march to Moscow.

Found by Napoleon and his armies when they entered Moscow.

Severe cold and snow, hypothermia, and marching with makeshift shoes and winter clothing.

The number of effective soldiers Napoleon had left of the 600,000 they started out with, by the time they arrived

Battle in 1813 in which the combined armies of Austria, Russia and Prussia defeated Napoleon’s army.

Event in March 1813 that caused Napoleon to abdicate.

Island from which Napoleon escaped to begin another short term of rule.

The short period of Napoleon’s Rule after his escape from the Island of Elba

An event that occurred shortly after Napoleon returned to Paris that required him to dispatch 10,000 soldiers.

It withdrew a significant number of troops from Napoleon’s army, troops which might have won him Waterloo.

Famous battle of June 1815, in which Napoleon is defeated for good.

Wellington with the British and Blucher with the Prussians

Restored Louis XVIII to the throne of France (with Talleyrand as one of his ministers), fixed the boundaries of the Netherlands and Switzerland, settled disputes in Italy and formed the various German states loosely under Austria.

Leading figure of Europe after the congress of Vienna who believed that Nationalism must take second place to peace and order.

Prime minister of the Hapsburg Empire

A kind of diplomacy where heads of governments or their representatives would meet to discuss controversies rather then trying to settle them on the battlefield.

No one nation could become stronger then the others and thereby be tempted to go to war against it’s neighbors.

1834 – 1876 Three Carlist wars through three generations.
Caused by the unlawful placing of Ferdinand VII’s daughter Isabel on the throne of Spain and the domination of Spain by her mother, Maria Christina.
After the final defeat, Carlos VII left Spain, leaving the liberals in control.