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-Legal equality

-Religious toleration

-Economic freedom

Reasons of its collapse:

-Britain’s ability to resist Napoleon

-Rise of NATIONALISM

oCommon language, religion and national symbol

1812- Napoleon’s downfall began by deciding to invade Russia

-Russia refused to remain the continental system

oThey fought in Borodino and Napoleon won

Reaching Moscow, Napoleon abandoned Russia thousands of soldiers died in the way

The military disaster made European states to rise up and attack

1814- Napoleon was exiled to Elba and victorious powers restored monarchy to Louis XVIII and had little support

1.Napoleon came back to france

2.Louis XVIII sent troops to capture him

3.Troops went to Napoleon’s side

4.Napoleon entered to Paris in 1815

5.Russia, Great Britain, Austria and Prussia planed to defeat Napoleon

6.Napoleon was defeated

7.Victorious alies exiled him to St. Helena and died in 1821

After Napoleon’s defeat

-European rulers restore the old order

-The Victors met in the Congress of Vienna in 1814 to arrange a final peace settlement

The Fall of Napoleon and European Reaction