Napoleon Bonaparte in 3 Maps [ASMR] book, maps, reading

Added: 2026-05-13

[00:00:13]Hello my friend and welcome to the study.

[00:00:19]I meant to get this video out last week, but there's been a lot of works going on outside and there's lots of noise and radios and things and it hasn't always been possible to film at night. So, here we are just a little bit late.

[00:00:44]And you can see I've got an atlas of historical events and history that I'd like to show you and share with you today, but particularly among all of the interesting things in here today, I would like to share with you the Napoleonic era in maps.

[00:01:29]Here you can see we're beginning with the French Revolution.

[00:01:36]And here we have a map of France as it was about 1789 to 95.

[00:01:50]The years that demarcate the revolution in France.

[00:02:09]and the different stages that this event took. We can see that there were some battles.

[00:02:25]We can see that there's disputed territory and there are different eras or periods with different forms of government or different groups in control of the government.

[00:02:46]We also have an interesting timeline here with color coding.

[00:02:52]The first part is June to October 1789 state of emergency.

[00:03:01]Mounting economic and political crisis forced Louis V 16th to summon the estates general at Vai in 1789.

[00:03:14]The third estate formed by the commoners formed a national assembly and took the tennis court oath vowing to remain united until a constitution was established.

[00:03:30]In July 1789 saw the storming of the Bastile.

[00:03:38]this symbol of the Aniang regime oppression and this marked the acceleration of the revolution, the discontent of the people.

[00:04:04]You can see the next section is the National Assembly.

[00:04:17]This one is marked with a skull massacre.

[00:04:22]The National Assembly abolished feudalism, adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man, and proclaimed a new constitutional monarchy.

[00:04:34]In June 1791, the king was caught fleeing Paris in the famous flight.

[00:04:47]The radical sentiment was further inflamed when moderates were blamed for the massacre of the Sheltermouth on the 17th of July in which the National Guard fired upon a crowd in Paris, killing up to 50 civilians.

[00:05:07]and knowing history.

[00:05:09]That's usually the match in the tinder box that starts these things um becoming out of control.

[00:05:23]So here we have these fists symbols.

[00:05:27]This is our state of emergency center of revolution.

[00:05:32]Bordeaux, go mim of course, Paris, La Mi and Djon.

[00:05:52]And by the time we are 1791, we've got massacre sites.

[00:06:00]Paris and further near Vong and we can see different areas are going to come under different influences from outside.

[00:06:28]The next section is the tumult spreads abroad 1792 to94.

[00:06:37]This is when we see some battles.

[00:06:41]These four represent French victory.

[00:06:46]However, this one at Neoendon in 1793 was defeat as well as Vadam.

[00:07:03]Shock waves rippled across Europe, sparking both revolutionary feeling.

[00:07:09]The Austrian Netherlands revolted and declared independence from Belgium.

[00:07:16]If you remember, the Austrian Netherlands had been a holding of the Hapsborg dynasty along with Spain.

[00:07:28]And this area, which we've gone into and out of in several videos here in this study, has always been a crossroads culminating in certain wars such as the Hundred Years War, 30 Years War, war, the Spanish Succession as well as Savoy And then of course in the 20th century in the great war and the second world war it's a very active place to live always changing hands and loyalty.

[00:08:21]Neighboring monarchies formed the first coalition to restore the French monarchy and the revolutionary wars began with France going to war with Austria, Prussia and most of its neighbors.

[00:08:35]Inside France, panic grew and the revolution became more extreme.

[00:08:43]And these red arrows, you can see the offensives by France and offensives here by coalition forces.

[00:09:00]And the orange is what France was able to annex.

[00:09:12]Now we have these two more sections or things happening around the same years of 1792 to 93 or4.

[00:09:27]The next one is the republic.

[00:09:31]The Parisian mob fearful that Louis the 16th was in league with the Prussians stormed the Tudari Palace and locked up the royal family.

[00:09:41]The monarchy was abolished and a republic declared.

[00:09:48]This is when the Jacabin convention took over.

[00:09:54]Promulgating in 1792 an edict of fraternity exposing the export of revolutionary ideals.

[00:10:03]And then in 1793 the king was executed.

[00:10:12]Also in 1792 there was the lea mass.

[00:10:21]This was a forced mass military conscription which prompted a counterrevolutionary uprising in the vday and elsewhere.

[00:10:34]And these areas are centers of counterrevolution revoling against this idea of conscription for military for the revolutionary cause which might or might not have been clear at different times.

[00:11:01]combined with the threat from a British landing at Tulong.

[00:11:07]This prompted the convention in August 1793 to issue the decree of the leas total mobilization of the entire population and the vond risings were brutally suppressed and the foreign armies thrown back.

[00:11:32]Now Europe had a true fire on its hands.

[00:11:39]Then came the terror 1793 to 1794 to stamp out counterrevolutionaries.

[00:11:52]The convention instituted the reign of terror with surveillance.

[00:12:04]denunciators and mass executions.

[00:12:10]Maximian Robispierre seized control of the terror and had his opponents executed.

[00:12:25]In July 1794, the terror reached fever pitch.

[00:12:35]and eventually consumed its own progenitors with the thermodor coup. Robert Pierre's arrest and execution was followed by the end of the terror in France.

[00:12:59]Then the revolution took a turn establishing the directory.

[00:13:09]In yellow, you can see where these little guillotine symbols, centers of the terror had taken hold.

[00:13:22]also parts of the most fervent counterrevolutionary movements.

[00:13:32]But in 1795, the Jacabins gave way to the Thorodorian convention. And then in October 1795, new elections and a suppressed revolt in Paris instituted the reign of the more moderate government called the directory and a period of relative stability.

[00:13:55]In 1796, the French general Napoleon Bonapart launched a successful Italian campaign that would make him the leading man in France.

[00:14:08]And here we can see General Bonapart's campaign and all of his victories.

[00:14:31]In this map, we can see all of the activities during these years, which proved a long era indeed, from 1794 all the way to 1815.

[00:14:55]This map goes to 1812 and will take it through to Napoleon's exile in 1815.

[00:15:07]Here we have France at its greatest expansion during the Bonapart era.

[00:15:15]and another graph timewise showing Napoleon's successes.

[00:15:22]The period 1794 to 1809 saw a string of successes for Napoleon as he rose to lead France and expand its influence briefly over all of Europe. In 1802, France had not advanced far beyond its historical borders, but it would soon become an empire.

[00:15:52]Here we see the war at sea.

[00:15:58]Since the French Revolutionary Wars, British command of the seas had been a constant thorn in Napoleon's side.

[00:16:08]British operations as far-flung as the Caribbean and Denmark assured their naval superiority even before the decisive battle of Trfalga ended French ambition to rule the seas.

[00:16:24]Here we have all of the French movements and the battles, the sea battles being in blue here.

[00:16:40]And here we have in 1805 when Nelson defeats the French under Verv having out maneuvered them in the Caribbean.

[00:16:54]We've gone over the battle of Trafalga here in the study when the French fleet made its escape from Tulong and Nelson chased it to the Caribbean and back.

[00:17:09]The battle Cape St. Vincent we've also covered and the combined fleet it's battle of Trafalga where Nelson died.

[00:17:33]Here we have June 1794.

[00:17:38]British victory over a French fleet which was protecting a grain convoy from the US on the so-called glorious 1st of June allows the British to blockade the French Navy in the port for years.

[00:17:55]You might remember we read about that in our gazette on 1794.

[00:18:13]And here we have the Egyptian campaign.

[00:18:18]Napoleon set off to control Egypt and therefore probably to threaten British interests beyond, especially India.

[00:18:29]He evaded Nelson's fleet and landed in Egypt where he won the Battle of the Pyramids against the Mammluks who ruled Egypt under the Ottoman Sultan and Napoleon occupied Cairo.

[00:18:50]So, we have several French victories and two defeats.

[00:18:56]one at the battle of the Nile that Nelson won in 1798, crippling Napoleon's Egyptian campaign and another at a 1799 to 1802 saw the war of the second coalition.

[00:19:18]You remember a coalition was formed during the revolution and now Europe has formed a second one against the forces of Napoleon Bonapart.

[00:19:32]In 1799 the coalition of nations attacked French interests while Napoleon was in Egypt.

[00:19:40]Russians beat the French in Italy and Austrians drove them back over the Rine.

[00:19:46]Napoleon returned from Egypt and staged a military coup, becoming first console before addressing the crisis in northern Italy.

[00:20:00]And this is what drove him to power.

[00:20:06]And here we can see the French victories in the Italian campaign, the war of the second coalition.

[00:20:16]We have Genoa, Milan, Turik, and Hornland will come when Napoleon begins.

[00:20:28]His wars against the third and the fourth coalitions, though, who began those wars is still debated today.

[00:20:46]Napoleon certainly was a formidable general and a very big personality who came at the right time to capitalize on his power and his influence over France and Europe.

[00:21:12]In 1805, Austria joined a British financed anti-French coalition that already included Russia, Sweden, and the Kingdom of Naples.

[00:21:24]After heavy defeats, Austria agreed peace terms with France and Russia and retreated to Poland.

[00:21:33]France created the Confederation of the Rine as a client state in the ashes of the Holy Roman Empire.

[00:21:42]Prussia was threatened by this and made war with France which ended in Prussian defeat and the creation of another client, the duche of Warsaw from former Austrian and Prussian lands.

[00:21:57]Here we seem oustit yo ait Berlin as Napoleon moves along east unstoppable in his victory.

[00:22:18]In 1806 he occupied Berlin and went on to freeland in 1807.

[00:22:31]It was during these Italian campaigns that he wrote some of his most ardent love letters to Josephine Boret.

[00:22:52]Throughout this era, we can see how the French Empire grew under Napoleon Bonapart at its greatest extent in 1812.

[00:23:07]Napoleon's domain included most of Europe. Only Britain consistently opposed him.

[00:23:19]And here we see Britain and Portugal.

[00:23:26]We're at war with Napoleon.

[00:23:32]Here we see an independent ally in part of Russia and the rest of what used to be the Holy Roman Empire and Spain had already become client states along with Sicily and Sardinia.

[00:23:59]It is perhaps when Napoleon made his greatest error, the decision to capture Moscow, march east, that began his downfall.

[00:24:17]His efforts to dominate Europe took him to the far eastern and western ends of the continent indeed.

[00:24:28]And battles were even fought all over the world in Europe's colonial holdings against France.

[00:24:38]And here we have another timeline showing eras of Napoleon's defeat.

[00:24:49]One was the Peninsula War between 1808 and 1814.

[00:24:59]The French invaded Portugal and Spain and deposed the Spanish monarchy.

[00:25:05]Years of popular Spanish uprising followed in a period that coined the term guerrilla warfare.

[00:25:13]Eventually, with Napoleon distracted by crises elsewhere, a concerted effort by the Duke of Wellington, Arthur Welssley forced the French out of Spain.

[00:25:31]This was a difficult spot for Napoleon to continue to hold on to despite having put his family members in control of different kingdoms.

[00:25:49]And here we can see the victories and defeats, mostly defeats to Wellington.

[00:26:12]The other biggest problem was perhaps the Russian campaign in 1812.

[00:26:19]And this we can see in purple.

[00:26:24]Napoleon's invasion of Russia incurred enormous losses without success.

[00:26:30]Here we see a few victories, but nothing decisive enough to hold.

[00:26:42]The Russian forces frustrated the French by retreating all the way to Moscow, then deserting the capital.

[00:26:54]This was their technique of burning all of the resources.

[00:27:02]Napoleon knew very well that an army could only march on its stomach, and when he couldn't feed or supply his army, they were in trouble.

[00:27:13]The exhausted French were f for forced to make the long return march with the harsh Russian winter setting in.

[00:27:26]So here we are the Russian forces in broken lines and the French forces in the solid lines.

[00:27:50]Remains of the French army, the Russian campaign have been found as uh far east as Lithuania.

[00:28:04]It was a Decisive loss for Napoleon to return for the first time not victorious.

[00:28:19]At the same time, having lost Spain and Portugal to Welssley.

[00:28:34]Then unexhausted in 1813, Britain, Russia, Portugal, and rebels in Spain were still at war with Napoleon.

[00:28:46]But after his disastrous Russian campaign, they were now joined by Austria, Sweden, Prussia, and more German states to form the sixth coalition.

[00:29:03]The Battle of the Nations was Europe's largest prior to World War I.

[00:29:11]And here we are.

[00:29:14]Luden, Dresden, Bson and L.

[00:29:28]And as Napoleon retreated, the defense of France in 1814 began.

[00:29:36]Allied armies agreed to pursue Napoleon to his total defeat and they converged on Paris with Napoleon again, scored brilliant early victories with another hastily mustered army.

[00:29:51]But he was soon forced to abdicate and the allies allowed him to be exiled as the ruler of Elba, this tiny island off the coast of Italy.

[00:30:30]The light having been the only defeat of the French, but perhaps the one that drove him back.

[00:30:46]But we all know he escaped from Elba.

[00:30:51]The monarchy reinstated in France was not popular and Napoleon was emboldened to land in France and again to gather an army marching to attack enemies in Belgium before they could join forces.

[00:31:10]But this culminated in the battle of Waterloo coming from Alba.

[00:31:24]The British under Wellington and the Prussians under General Ba together ensured Napoleon's last defeat at Waterloo.

[00:31:37]16th of June 1815.

[00:31:40]In the final victories of Napoleon's career, his ameur repulsed the Prussian and British forces separately at Lini and Katra.

[00:31:53]But the following morning, a crucial cavalry charge by the British Scots Gay Regiment that we can see here was part of clinching the battle that and the late arrival of Bleius Prussians.

[00:32:19]And here we have the Irishborn Arthur Welsley, Duke of Wellington.

[00:32:35]He had a leading role in the defeat of Napoleon at Wateroo in 1815, but also in all of the campaigns in the Iberian Peninsula or the Peninsula War.

[00:32:52]This Napoleonic era is perhaps one about which countless accounts and books have been written.

[00:33:05]This most enigmatic and persuasive character Bonapart still intrigues people today.

[00:33:24]And I hope you've enjoyed this overview of maps from that era.

[00:33:36]Cursory as it was, maybe it sparked some interest.

[00:33:44]Maybe it relaxed you and put you to sleep.

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