December 2, 1804. At Notre-Dame in Paris, with Pope Pius VII present, a man from Corsica crowns himself Emperor of the French. Seventeen years later, he dies on Saint Helena, a remote island in the South Atlantic, where he has been held in exile since 1815. This is the entire Napoleonic Wars in 30 minutes, told as an animated story: Corsica and Egypt, the First Consul, Trafalgar and Austerlitz, Spain, Russia, Leipzig, and Waterloo.

How does an outsider from Corsica build an empire that, by 1812, counts one hundred thirty departments? And how does he lose it all? What happened in Saint-Domingue while France fought in Europe? Why did the Grand Army march into Russia? And what did these wars leave behind? Let's go.

⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00 The Coronation at Notre-Dame
00:46 Born in Ajaccio, Corsica
01:23 The Siege of Toulon (1793)
01:48 The Army of Italy (1796)
02:24 The Expedition to Egypt (1798)
02:49 Nelson at Aboukir Bay
03:14 The Rosetta Stone
04:11 The Coup of 18 Brumaire (1799)
04:53 Chapter 2: From Consul to Emperor
05:03 The Battle of Marengo (1800)
05:37 The Concordat and the Peace of Amiens
05:56 Saint-Domingue and Toussaint Louverture
07:20 France Sells Louisiana (1803)
07:51 Haiti Is Proclaimed (1804)
08:08 The Civil Code
08:52 The Coronation (1804)
09:48 Chapter 3: The Height of Power
10:09 The Surrender at Ulm
10:22 The Battle of Trafalgar
11:11 The Battle of Austerlitz
12:15 The Confederation of the Rhine
12:35 Jena and Auerstaedt
13:06 The Decree Against British Trade
13:21 The Battle of Eylau
13:58 Two Emperors on the Niemen and the Treaty of Tilsit
14:38 Chapter 4: Cracks in the Empire
14:41 Portugal and Lisbon
15:09 The Madrid Uprising of May 2, 1808
15:36 The Surrender at Bailen
16:15 The Peninsular War
16:47 The Lines of Torres Vedras
17:03 Salamanca and Vitoria
17:45 Aspern-Essling (1809)
18:06 The Battle of Wagram
18:24 Josephine and Marie Louise
19:28 The Break with Russia
19:43 Chapter 5: Russia and the Fall
19:46 The Grand Army Crosses the Niemen (1812)
20:35 The Battle of Borodino
21:06 Moscow in Flames
22:01 The Berezina River
22:46 The Battle of the Nations at Leipzig (1813)
23:53 The Treaty of Chaumont and the Fall of Paris
24:24 Exile on Elba
24:44 Chapter 6: The Hundred Days and the Legacy
24:48 Escape from Elba (1815)
25:48 The Battle of Waterloo
26:44 The Second Abdication
26:58 Saint Helena
27:13 Death at Longwood (1821)
27:46 The Congress of Vienna
28:17 What Did It All Cost?
28:53 What Lasted: The Civil Code

???? WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
• How a boy born in Ajaccio in 1769 rose through Toulon, Italy and Egypt
• The coup of 18 Brumaire and how Bonaparte became First Consul in 1799
• Marengo, the Concordat and the Peace of Amiens
• The revolt in Saint-Domingue, Toussaint Louverture, the sale of Louisiana and the birth of Haiti
• The Civil Code of 1804, and what it set out and what it left out
• Ulm, Trafalgar and Austerlitz
• Jena, the Confederation of the Rhine and the end of the Holy Roman Empire
• The blockade of Britain, Eylau, Friedland and the Treaty of Tilsit
• The Peninsular War, Aspern-Essling and Wagram
• The Grand Army in Russia: Borodino, Moscow and the Berezina
• Leipzig, the abdication of 1814, Elba and the Hundred Days
• Waterloo, Saint Helena, the Congress of Vienna and what the wars cost

❓ QUESTIONS THIS VIDEO ANSWERS
• When did Napoleon crown himself emperor? On December 2, 1804, at Notre-Dame in Paris, with Pope Pius VII present.
• Where and when did Napoleon die? At Longwood on Saint Helena, on May 5, 1821. Doctors at the time, and historians since, have most often pointed to stomach cancer.
• How big was the empire at its height? By 1812 it counted one hundred thirty departments.
• What happened at Austerlitz? On December 2, 1805, the allies lost about twenty-seven thousand men, and French casualties were about eight thousand five hundred.
• Why did the Grand Army march into Russia? Tsar Alexander the First banned French goods on December 31, 1810, leaving the trade blockade of Britain. The army crossed the Niemen on June 24, 1812.
• How many men came back from Russia? Historians' estimates of the army's size run from about 450,000 to well over 600,000, and fewer than one hundred thousand came back.
• What happened at Waterloo? On June 18, 1815, the Imperial Guard was defeated and Napoleon retreated. French losses were roughly forty thousand killed, wounded or captured.
• How many people died in the wars? Nobody knows exactly. Historians estimate that the wars killed millions of people across Europe, soldiers and civilians.
• How did a revolt in Saint-Domingue end up connected to Louisiana? Watch chapter two.

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