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NAPOLEON	FRANCE
The Historical Investigation Option - basic intro.	The d'Enghien affair: crime or blunder?
RISE TO POWER.	Before Brumaire: reading assignment.
Factor mind map	Napoleon and France - starting points.
Napoleon at Toulon - 1793	Establishing power
Video notes: rise to power (up to Egypt)	Georges Rude - Napoleon and France.
France in 1795 - Vendemiaire in context	Cowie - evaluating the reforms
Michael Rapport - Rise to power article	Heir or destroyer of the revolution?
Quiz - Napoleon's rise to power up to 1796.	Napoleon the monarch
Thermidorean Reaction - the break down of democracy	The myth of the significance of Brumaire
Ben Jones on the Directory	Napoleonic government quiz .
The role of the army in the Coup de Brumaire.	Napoleonic police
Napoleon on Napoleon	EMPIRE
RULING	Georges Rude - Napoleon and the Empire.
Howard Brown - Was Brumaire a watershed?	Historians in conversation - Napoleon's impact on the Empire

MILITARY COMMANDER	DOWNFALL
Napoleon as a commander - the limitations of genius	Napoleon's fall - summary
The upgrading of Marengo	Rude's views
Ellis on Napoleon and the military
What if Napoleon had landed?	THE MYTH .
Napoleon's army in the Moscow campaign	Analyzing the myth
'Fighting for Napoleon' exhibition	NEW Napoleon - evaluating his reputation?

Napoleon - man of peace!!	Timeline of Napoleon's life

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