Chapter 20: The Age of Napoleon
and the Triumph of Romanticism
THE AGE OF NAPOLEON
Names
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
*became Napoleon I on December 2, 1804*
Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson (1758-1805)
Josephine de Beauharnais (1763-1814)
Abbé Siéyès (1746-1836)
Roger Ducos (1747-1816)
Pope Pius VII (r. 1800-1823)
Duke of Enghien (1772-1804)
Marie Louise (1791-1847)
Joseph Bonaparte (1768-1844)
Sir Arthur Wellesley “Duke of Wellington” (1769-1852)
Alexander I (r. 1801-1825)
Mikhail Kutuzov (1745-1813)
Frederick William III (r. 1797-1840)
Francis II (r. 1792-1835)
Charles IV (r. 1788-1808)
Events/Terms
The Battle of Toulon (1793)
“Whiff of grapeshot”—dispersion of the royalist uprising (October 5, 1795)
Treaty of Campo Formio (October 1797)
Battle of the Nile (August 1, 1798)
Coup d’état of 19 Brumaire (November 10, 1799)
Constitution of the Year VIII (December 1799)
The Bank of France (established in 1800)
The Concordat of 1801
Lycées (established in 1802)
The Imperial Recess of 1803
The Louisiana Purchase of 1803
The Napoleonic Code (established in 1804)
Coronation of Napoleon (December 2, 1804)
The Berlin Decrees (November 1806)
The Continental System (established in 1806)
The Grand Empire
Guerrilla Warfare
Scorched Earth Tactics
Military Campaigns
War of the Second Coalition (1798-1802)
(Second Coalition=Great Britain, Russia, Austria, Ottoman State)
Battle of Marengo (June 14, 1800)
Treaty of Lunéville (February 1801)
Treaty of Amiens (March 1802)
War of the Third Coalition (1805-1807)
(Third Coalition=Great Britain, Russia, Austria)
Battle of Trafalgar (October 21, 1805)
Battle of Austerlitz (December 2, 1805)
Treaty of Pressburg (December 1805)
Battle of Jena (October 14, 1806)
Battle of Auerstädt (October 14, 1806)
Battle of Friedland (June 13, 1807)
Treaty of Tilsit (July 1807)
Peninsular Campaign (1808-1814)
War of Liberation (1809)
Battle of Wagram—July 5-6, 1809
Treaty of Schönbrunn (October 1809)
Russian Campaign (1812)
Battle of Borodino—September 7, 1812
War of the Fourth Coalition (1813-1814)
(Fourth Coalition=Great Britain, Russia, Austria, Prussia)
Battle of Dresden—August 26-27, 1813
Battle of Leipzig—October 16-19, 1813 (Battle of the Nations)
Treaty of Chaumont (March 1814)
Treaty of Paris (May 1814)
The Hundred Days (March 22, 1815—June 22, 1815)
Battle of Waterloo—June 18, 1815
Congress of Vienna
*met between September 1814 to November 1815*
Quadruple Alliance
Holy Alliance
Klemens von Metternich (1773-1859) [Austria]
Robert Stewart “Viscount Castlereagh” (1769-1822) [Great Britain]
Alexander I (r. 1801-1825) [Russia]
Karl August von Hardenberg (1750-1822) [Prussia]
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand (1754-1838) [France]
ROMANTICISM
Terms
Sturm und Drang
Methodism
Literature
*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) [German]
*Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) [German]
Friedrich Schlegel (1767-1845) [German]
Jakob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859) Grimm [German]
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) [German]
*William Blake (1757-1827) [English]
*William Wordsworth (1770-1850) [English]
*Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) [English]
*Lord Byron (George Gordon) (1788-1824) [English]
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) [English]
John Keats (1795-1821) [English]
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) [English]
Robert Browning (1812-1889) [English]
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) [Scottish]
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) [French]
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) [French]
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) [French]
Painting
Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) [French]
*Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) [French]
*Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) [English]
*John Constable (1776-1837) [English]
*Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) [Spanish]
Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) [German]
Music
*Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) [German]
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) [Austrian]
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) [French]
*Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) [Polish]
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) [Hungarian]
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) [Italian]
Philosophy
*Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) [German]
*G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) [German]
Religion
*John Wesley (1703-1791) [English]
*Viscount François René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) [French]
*Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) [German]