Napoleon Bonaparte 6 Major Accomplishments

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Napoleon rose to power through the ranks of the French military during the French Revolution. He seized political power in France during a coup in 1799, and he crowned himself emperor in 1804 (History.com Staff). The French landowners supported Napoleon. This was due to the fact that the revolution stripped the land from the upper class and church and sold it to the landowners. Napoleon, through the Napoleonic Code, gave the landowners much power. In exchange for their support, Napoleon allowed the landowners to keep their land (History.com Staff).

Napoleon had many successes in France. In my research, I found a website that outlined six of his major achievements (“6 Major Accomplishments of Napoleon Bonaparte.”). First, Napoleon urged the

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