Napoleon

2. the use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region.
6. a comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon.
9. a conflict, lasting from 1808 to 1813, in which Spanish rebels, with the aid of British forces, fought to drive Napoleon’s French troops out of Spain.
12. King of France from 1774 to 1792; his unpopular policies helped trigger the French Revolution. Deposed by the National Convention, he was executed by guillotine.
13. a soldier who is paid to fight in a foreign army.
15. a village in Belgium the site of Napoleon´s last battle in 1815.
17. one of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution—the First Estate consisting of the clergy; the Second Estate, of the nobility; and the Third Estate, of the rest of the population.
18. the practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land.
19. a sudden seizure of political power in a nation.
20. the brief period during 1815 when Napoleon made his last bid for power, deposing the French king and again becoming emperor of France.

1. a direct vote in which a country’s people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal.
2. an 1805 naval battle in which Napoleon’s forces were defeated by a British fleet under the command of Horatio Nelson.
3. a government-run public school in France.
4. During the first decade of the 1800s, Napoleon’s victories had given him mastery over most of Europe.
5. a member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country.
7. Napoleon’s policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe, intended to destroy Great Britain’s economy.
8. a formal agreement—especially one between the pope and a government, dealing with the control of Church affairs.
10. What was the western border of the land included in the Louisiana Purchase?
11. where was the battle of trafalgar fought?
14. Emperor of France; he seized power in a coup d’état in 1799; he led French armies in conquering much of Europe, placing his relatives in positions of power. Defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, he was exiled on the island of Elba.
16. a wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789.