In 1799, after the French Revolution had quieted into the Thermidorean Reaction, a brilliant general named Napoleon Bonaparte overthrew the Directory and came into power as leader of the Consulate, beginning in 1799. Under Napoleon, France became a nationalist power, expanding its territory into Italy and exerting its influence over other powers. Napoleon consolidated his rule by suppressing rebellions in France, normalizing relations with the Church in the Concordat of 1801, and streamlining the French law system in the Napoleonic Code.
Defeating the various military coalitions the other powers of Europe threw against him, Napoleon won battle after battle, defeating the Austrians at Marengo (1800). He built a vast empire of dependant states and controlled the majority of Europe. Everywhere he went he spread the reforms and influence of the French Revolution to a remarkable extent.
Upset by Napoleonic rule, Germanic nationalism got its start, and the Germans began to move towards Romanticism as an intellectual rebellion against French Enlightenment ideas.
On the brink of a new Anglo-French conflict, the peace established with the Treaty of Amiens Is menaced, and the world seems at the verge of a new era under the leadership of the French State and Napoleon, unless someone stops him.
Start date: 1803
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