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= = =Napoleonic Invasion of Russia= toc Napoleonic Invasion of Russia = = == In 1807, after Napoleon defeated the Russians in Poland, Tsar Alexander of Russia decided to sign the Treaty of Tilsit, agreeing to not trade with England. The French and Russians were thus allied at the time, but in around 1811, Tsar Alexander started to break the agreement set forth in the Treaty of Tilsit.

In 1812, Napoleon's advisers suggested that he attempt an invasion on Russia, so Napoleon marched into Russia. If his invasion were successful, he would have conquered or defeated a large portion of continental Europe.

At the start of the invasion of Russia, Napoleon's Grande Armee had about 600,000 men, far outnumbering the Russian Imperial Army which had about 175,000 men. However, because of constant raids by Russian armies, cold weather, and lack of supplies, Napoleon's army had diminished over the course of the invasion of Russia.

When Napoleon's army had reached MoscoEditw, the city was deserted, and fire burned the wooden houses. Tsar Alexander of Russia also did not appear to negotiate, so Napoleon decided to send his troops back home. However, the path back to France was long, and the early mid-October Russian winter brought temperatures below freezing. Supplies were scarce and Russian cossacks harassed any soldiers that were left behind.

By the time Napoleon had left Russia, only around 10,000 of his men had survived, leaving him in a position to be defeated at later battles like the Battle at Leipzig and the Battle of Waterloo.

Cause of Napoleon's Failure in Russia
While the particularly harsh and early winter of 1812 in Russia had contributed to Napoleon's failed campaign in Russia, Napoleon was not exactly the most prepared person to deal with the Russian lands. In his invasion of Russia, Napoleon failed to properly account for the effects of attrition; since supply trains travel slower than cavalry and soldiers, Napoleon decided to try living off of the land.

However, Russian agriculture was not particularly rich in food supplies for soldiers to easily forage from, and the Russian roads were scarce and poor, making travel difficult. Napoleon's army also had over 50,000 horses which could not sustain themselves well off of just grazing. In Napoleon's invasion of Russia, horses died off fast, rendering many of his horse-riding cavalry men nearly useless. Napoleon had brought about 30 days of food in supply trains in case, but his estimations for failure did not match reality.

Also, as chain reactions work the way they do, disease started to spread among Napoleon's men as he marched onto Moscow; their immune systems were well-weakened by the lack of food, the fatigue of the march, and the cold weather. And as unhealthy starving soldiers started to look for food desperately, the army was broken apart, and Russian cossacks who were healthy and used to the land and weather were able to easily defeat random vagabond French soldiers.

Napoleon's invasion was defeated by attrition, and the Russians knew how to take advantage of their land in this way. There were none of the typical major battles where regiments of soldiers line up against each other in a march onwards in this invasion; Russian soldiers retreated and harassed the weak left behinds. Russian weather and terrain gave Napoleon a harsh adversary, and the natural forces of starvation and disease killed off Napoleon's soldiers.

Napoleon likely would not have won in his campaign on Russia even if his Grande Armee had been larger; in a battle of attrition, a larger army means more supplies would be required. However, Napoleon could have possibly won if his logistics in invading Russia had been better, and he did not underestimate the power of the Russian lands to drain his army.

=The World Stage in 1812=

France
Napoleon had already either conquered or allied with a great portion of continental Europe. Russia, Portugal, the Ottoman Empire, and Sweden remained untouched by Napoleon. And, Great Britain remained a power, dominating the seas with their Royal Navy.

However, Napoleon had attempted to weaken Great Britain by disallowing other European nations to trade with it, but by going against the Treaty of Tilsit, Russia acts against Napoleon's goals and helps the British.

Nonetheless, Napoleon's empire remained a great power of the time and a threat to all with the Grande Armee containing about 600,000 men in June 1812, having increased in size throughout Napoleon's European campaigns.

The Grande Armee, meaning "Great Army", was so named in 1805 when Napoleon assimilated forces on the English Channel coast in preparation for an invasion of Great Britain. However, this "great army" had been sent off to fight Austria and France at the time instead of invading Britain because of the formation of the third coalition between Austria, Portugal, and Russia.

At its peak, over half of the soldiers in the Grande Armee were not French, having been conscripted into military service during conquest, and the militaristic composition of the army itself, in simplification, was comprised of cavalry, infantry, and artillery.

Britain
Britain was constantly at war with France throughout the whole Napoleonic Wars although Napoleon, historically, never got a good chance to invade Britain. In addition to being mostly barred from trade with the largely Napoleonic Europe, Britain was fighting the war of 1812 with the Americans which was a largely naval struggle that lasted up until 1815. This war had partially been caused by the fact that in 1807, the same year the Russians agreed to Napoleon's Treaty of Tilsit, Britain had tried to restrict trade between the Americans and the France. The British regular army with 250,000 men at the time may have been the next best land military force in Europe behind Napoleon's Grande Armee, but the War of 1812 forced the British to divert resources and troops to defending Canada from the Americans, which was advantageous to Napoleon's goals. The War of 1812 ended with the Treaty of Ghent, and ultimately did not change the global map much as Britain returned its conquered land to the USA after losing the Battle of New Orleans.

The War of 1812 is sometimes considered part of the Napoleonic Wars although it did not have a huge impact on the wars since France was eventually defeated with the Sixth and Seventh Coalitions. However, if Napoleon had not been defeated at Russia, the fact that Great Britain had been diverted with a war with the US might have been more significant.

Regardless, during this time, the British maintained naval dominance with their Royal Navy and could easily thwart any of Napoleon's attempts to trade overseas.

Other European Nations
Russia

In between the time of the Treaty of Tilsit and Napoleon's invasion of Russia, Russia had waged war on Sweden in 1808, winning Finland as part of its territory in 1809 and waged war on the Ottoman empire between 1806 and 1812, resulting in the Russian seizing of Bessarabia. Russia was an ally of France by the Treaty of Tilsit up until they started to break the agreement set when the Russians lost to France in Poland.

Tsar Alexander I of Russia ruled at the time, and in his defeat of Napoleon, he was hailed as a savior of Europe and invited as an integral part of the Congress of Vienna that followed Napoleon's fall. If Napoleon had not invaded Russia, which lead to his eventual decline, the Congress of Vienna would not have occurred as there would be no easy way to fairly reconstruct Europe while the French army presided.

Austria

Since Marie Antoinette, who was murdered by French revolutionaries, was also the archduchess of Austria, Austria was left in a position to show animosity toward the French. This was part of the reason they joined the First Coalition during the French Revolutionary Wars although Austria had found itself in a losing streak of battles against the French up until the Sixth and Seventh Coalitions.

When Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812, Austria had sent some of their men over as troops to support the campaign since, at the time, Austria was allied with Napoleon's empire. However, after Napoleon's failure in Russia, Austria takes the chance to defeat the French. If Napoleon had not invaded Russia and been severely weakened, Austria would have remained allied with France. = = =What if Napoleon had not Invaded Russia?= Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia was a failed campaign that greatly reduced the French forces. Since this invasion was a major trigger for the downfall of Napoleonic France, the global map would have likely had many more French influences with drastically different country borders if the invasion had not occurred.

The Delay
After breaking the Treaty of Tilsit by trading with England, Napoleon and his advisers are thinking of attacking Russia to reinforce the treaty. Napoleon sees that his army far outnumbers the Russian army, but Napoleon hears about the harsh Russian lands and decides that if Russia attacked him, he would face no real threat. Napoleon realizes that Russia is different from the other areas he has conquered thusfar, so he sends off one of his advisers to gather information about the Russian lands from people who had traveled there. Until then, Napoleon decides not to leave his Grande Armee idle, so he captures the rest of Europe, the relatively weak Ottoman empire to the southeast with the spotted remains of the Byzantine. After completing this campaign, Napoleon decides to move his capital to a new city he founded in Switzerland called Nepola, to control Europe from its center. When Napoleon was finally ready to punish Russia for breaking the treaty of Tilsit in the early spring of 1813, he had conquered all of Europe barring Russia.

British Mobilization
Being at war with the French, Britain was relieved that France had not yet invaded, but also worried about the rapidly growing power of Napoleon's empire and army. At this time, Napoleon had prevented Britain from trading with most of the rest of Europe through his territories and alliances, and Britain was preoccupied with the War of 1812 against the Americas. However, Britain did not want to end the War of 1812 as it had been going well, but many of their troops were still diverted to the cause.

Instead, while Napoleon is out conquering Russia and the Ottoman Empire, Britain decides to take advantage of its superiorRoyal Navy and sail off to Africa. Britain sets up colonies along South Africa and parts of African bordering the Mediterranean by negotiating with leaders and using some military force. From these new colonies, Britain attempts to find conscripts for their military, encouraging or forcing tribe leaders to send off their strong men to fight for the British army.

Britain also mobilizes the British East India Company to gain control over the southern half of the Indian sub-continent. Like in Africa, Britain finds conscripts among the Indians and assimilates an army comprised of mostly British men plus Africans and Indians, numbering around 300,000 men in preparation for a short war on China.

This army of British men and conscripts is sent off from the east coast of India to modern day Hong Kong, and from this vantage point, the British East India Company demands that the Chinese purchase British goods more openly, including opium. China refuses this demand, and the British send off their troops to China, conquering a large portion of the East coast before agreeing to a peace treaty that returned conquered land to China if China became a colony of Britain.

Though not as strongly centralized as Napoleon's Empire, by 1814, Britain has made itself very powerful.

Napoleon's attack on Russia
After his conquest of the Ottoman Empire, Napoleon determines that he is ready to attack Russia. He hears that the Russian roads are small and poor and food is scarce, so he gathers a force of about 400,000 men, mostly French, and takes many supply trains with him. He leaves the rest of his forces in France, in the event of a British invasion. In the early Russian spring of 1813, the snow is starting to melt, but Napoleon makes his first target for invasion the westernized city of Saint Petersburg with its close location to France and agreeable climate.

The siege on Saint Petersburg is successful as Napoleon's army is strong, but Napoleon did not find as much resistance in Saint Petersburg as he expected. He starts to march onto Moscow, slowed down by his supply trains and the poor roads. The Russian cossacks harass Napoleon's troops, and as the march advances, Napoleon realizes that he has to ration the supplies more and more among his army as there is nothing to forage, but the soldiers on the front lines of the march are given the chance to rest in waiting for the supply trains.

Napoleon's soldiers are fatigued by the time they reach Moscow, and about 20,000 of his men died on the journey, but Napoleon's army was able to defeat many ambushing cossacks and killed many civilians along the path. Moscow itself is deserted, and the Russians had burnt the city and all their farms. Winter is starting to set in, but Napoleon decides to march on south in search of the main Russian army, and he is ambushed by them. However, Napoleon is well-prepared for an ambush as cossacks had hidden themselves throughout the whole journey towards Moscow.

Napoleon barely wins the battle south of Moscow by coordinating his troops, and he goes back to Moscow with Tsar Alexander to sign a peace treaty, agreeing that Napoleon may claim the western area of Russia around Finland, including Saint Petersburg, and that Russia become an ally of the French again.

Before Napoleon returns, he ensures that the newspapers herald his victory in Russia well.

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a section was deleted from here, but it is a very important section, so i'll just run you through key points. napoleon wants to take india so he goes through the middle east and central asia taking over everything in his wake, arrives in india and makes an alliance with alok singh. alok singh rallies other princes and they attack british india. it was a huge war, latter to be called varuna yuud, which britain and napoleon call on all of their resourses but napoleon eventually wins.

reconquer India
Napoleon, seing as the british had used a large amount of resources in their attempt to defend india, wanted to storm the crippled colony of china. Unfortunately, Alok Singh, days after the british were expelled from India, turned and attacked Napoleon. napoleon used the french navy, and ehen they arrived, the spanish and portegese navies to bombard the coasts of india, while the Dutch east india compannies fleet was allowed to return home. soon the coast was taken, but on land, napoleon was having trouble. the indian army amassed to a grand total of over one million men, who now had british weapons, while Napoleon had a measly 175,000 men left. he ordered his men to retreat to goa. he then had his entire army retreat to indonesia. they conquered any natives they found and waited. Alok singh beleived himself victorious, but, as is the trend of indian society, all the princes he previously led tried to break away from alok. Alok tried frantically to keep hold of his empire, and while he was busy, Napoleon landed his troups back on goa and stormed to the capital, letting his navy bombard the coast. he rushed through to Alok's capital, Delhi. there he met Alok's disorganized troops, who are crushed easily by napoleon's superior planning Alok was killed, and the rest of india was soon brought under napoleonic rule. Napoleon left 50,000 men and the spanish navy in india to keep it secure, and napoleon went home with the rest of his troops, battered. when he returned, he fell seriously ill with cancer. doctors tried to heal him, but to no avail. on June 6, 1822, napoleon died at the age of 52, leaving his son, Napoleon II in charge.

Stabilizing the empire
Napoleon II was only eleven when he took the throne, but his fair judgment and patience made him an able and powerful ruler. he was able to quell the various rebellions with ease, and stirred loyalty of even those his father had recently conquered. he, like his father, wanted to conquer china, but decided it would be wiser to wait some years to rebuild and stabalyze the land under his rule. in this time the economy and life as a whole flourished. scientific innovations were actively encouraged. this led to several inventions, such as dynamite, invented by an indian scietist Prakash Sujeev in 1826, steel by a french man named Gerald Dubois, and the telephone in1828 by a swedish inventor named Adam Carnell. both of these inventions were put under strict security by napoleon the second to prevent the british from learning how to make them. however, these two inventions greatly aided in control of the napoleonic empire, and soon, the the empire was brimming with magnifiscence from france, to the middle east, to india. barring his conquest of northern Africa in 1826, Napoleon II allowed his empire to sit and flourish until 1831, ten years after his crowning as emporer, when he attacked china.

The Americas
When Napoleon I conquered india and defeated the British, the Americas fully appreciated the power Napoleon weilded. in 1819, the mexico gained their independance thanks to the aid of USA, south america and the carribean began to reject the spanish rule around 1820, and they too slowly got their own independence. later, the portugese royal family was also overthrown in 1820. by 1821, all of the americas were free from european rule, except canada, which was a british colony. these colonies made an alliance against the Napoleonic empires rule, so that if napoleon attacked britain or any of the americas, all of these countries were ready to attack. Britain helped industrialize the US, who in turn helped the carribean, mexico, and south america build a strong economy. these countries then set up some colonies in africa to have another stronghold, and a place to get a steady supply of slaves, but, unfortunately, their combined might was not strong enough to take on the whole napoleonic empire, so America sent fleets out to Japan, a fairly isolated kingdom, to hopefully strike peace with them and rebuild the country and make an alliance. so, american commodore Matthew Perry went in 1829 to pry open Japan. he asked for a council with the emporer, but was denied. so, Perry bombarded Japan until they openned their doors. commodore perry stayed in Japan for two years, trying to convince the Japanese to open their ports to america and join an alliance. Japan agreed, so america, in gratitude gave them the technology they had but the Japanese lacked. Japan kept their doors open long enough to gather and replicate the inventions the world had made, and then shut their doors to the world again, breaking all ties with america. this mission was a failure, but America and britain devised a strategy to open up Japan once and for all. however, in the meantime, they sailed to the taiwan. the people of taiwan were infamous for fighting until death for their freedom, and they would not take kindly to being bombed. instead, they sent commodore James Ryan to make peace with the people and convince them to join the americas and britain in an alliance against napoleon. the taiwanese people accepted this proposal and america showed them the new technological advancements and by 1830, taiwan had the weaponry to hold its own on land. however, its navy was still premature. as such, the british promised support on sea if and when napoleon came to strike the island.

china and the pacific
on october 15, 1831 ,Napoleon the second gets a force of 700,000 men and 20,000 ships ready to take down the rest of asia. he gathers troups in india and sets forth into china. he crushes the british forces with ease, taking over most of southern china and south asia before heading northward and dominating the rest of china. he heads into korea and defeats the outdated yi dynasty and then takes vietnam. rather than countinueing immediatelyto the asian islands, napoleon decides to solidify his rule in china. he notices that there was far less resistance in china than he expected, seeing how britain had years to raise defences. he was cautious of a trap, and opted to fortify china for 6 months.once he ensured china was safely his, he split his army into three. he sent one to conquer Indonesia and Taiwan, one to conquer Japan, and one, the largest to conquer the british colony australia.

indonesia and Taiwan
in 1832 Napoleon II sent a very small force to counquer indonesia and taiwan, making up of 50,000 men and barely 1000 ships. they conquerd all of the indonesian islands with ease, but when they approached taiwan, they were surprised to see the taiwanese not only resisting, but resisting with possession of modern weaponry. nonetheless, the napoleonic forces were able to steadily weaken the taiwanese due to taiwan's lack of navy, but soon enough, The growing american and the powerful british navies came to taiwanese aid, surprised and confused about their next step, the napoleonic forces retreated to china, who would later regroup and attack taiwan again.

Japan and Australia
Japan was attacked in 1832 by a fleet of 5,000 ships and 100,000 men. the size was largely due to the public interaction Japan had with britain and america, and though napoleon the second new that america and britain had a falling out with japan, japan had acquired new technologies. as such, the force was larger, and when they sailed to Japan, they expected a quick and decisve victory. they were right to an extent: though jaapan was somewhat modernized, it wasn't accustom to fighting with the new technology, and their infantry was being dominated on land and their navy was easily destroyed at sea. the Napoleonic forces conquered edo, but right before they had officially claimed Japan for France,american troups were reported to have landed on the docks of japan and british navy was sighted in route. the napoleonic forces at first attempted to resist the onslaught, but soon found hopes of success minimal. a full scall retreat was ordered, but only half of the forces escaped alive. they met back up with napoleon II in china, while America and Britain solidified an alliance with Japan. on the flip side, due to the americann and british forces focussing on protecting their allies, the Napoleonic forces found it exceptionally easy to conquer, by christmas 1831, Australia and neighboring islands were Napoleon's.

Regroup and attacking taiwan
Napoleon the second was sincerely surprised about the difficulties faced with taiwan and was shocked when he found out Britain and america came to japan's aid. Napoleon II wanted to conquer both of these islands, but new the risk outweighed the reward and the reward failed to outway the pain. instead, he opted to attack one of them with a massive fleet, in order to take out one of the equally dangerous islands. in the end Napoleon II chose Taiwan due to its smaller size and more coast: it would be easier to bombard from sea. however, he did not want britain to have all their forces concentrated in taiwan to counter his own, so in 1836, when napoleon had restrengthend his forces and supplies, he sent a diversionary force of 150,000 troups on 20,000 ships to Japan and deployed 500,000 troups on 25,000 ships to taiwan, once the brunt of the british forces bit the bait in Japan. the force headed for taiwan was met by the american and what was left of the british navy, amassing to a solid 20,000 ships. a battle engaged for days, leaving napoleon as the victor at sea with 800 ships left and 50,000 troups. these troups were deployed into taiwan, but were met by every single taiwanese, barring not even women and children. the enemy not only had homefeild advantage, but had more will: they were fighting for their home. Napoleon II's forces were slowly whittled away to about 25,000 before a retreat was commanded.

Regaining the people
Napoleon the second realized at this point, they were facing a powerful united front with many individuals with a common goal. only a fraction of his people wanted more land, most wanted a peaceful living. unfortunately, at this point, the remaining world powers would not allow that. Napoleon II needed his people to hate the other powers, so he devised a plan. he first conquered north africa in 1837 for its goods and riches and for an easy defeat of britain to gain loyalty and love of his people which was waining after his recent losses. he then, in 1838, reformed the governmental infrastructure dividing it into regions divided by cultural and social boundaries. each region had three branches of government that mimicked the western government but with some modifications. The executive branch was lead by a relative of Napoleon's who took on the title napoleon of __ region. he was charged with executing the kings wishes on a smaller scale and each napoleon was always transfered to a new region every ten years to keep a ballence of power. the legislative branch consisted of representatives of the people elected by popular vote in a closed ballot, personally overseen by the judicial branch, which was led by the best candidate from the region, who was the one who scored the best on a moral/ethical test devised by intellectuals from every end of the napoleonic empire. overseeing it all was the great Napoleon, who would travel the empire randomly stopping in various regions to make sure that the rulers were doing their job and also take a census, to help strengthen unity in the empire. the only exception being Napoleon the second, the Great Napoleon was chosen in an open ballet in front of all the other napoleons where the each napoleon chose someone to be great napoleon beside themself. Napoleon the second was Great Napoleon was for three years until he died on April 1,1841 when he died of the flu, resulting in Napoleon of the Indian region becoming the new Great Napoleon.

Napoleon the third
Napoleon the Third was a tactful man who understood the many principles of ruling and keeping revolts to a minimum. Napoleon the Third employed principles which would appeal to the public, such as lowered taxes, freedom of religion (napoleonic code already did this), and other basic liberties in order to keep the people happy. Napoleon the Third ensured the people's content with the conquering and unification of one empire. he would often allow local rulers to stay in power over their area, but the local rulers would have to report to the Grand Emperor Napoleon (i think this was already covered this too). While Napoleon the third ran the finances of the country himself, the army saw less attention from the grand emperor, weakening the development of weapons technology. Napoleon had to cut taxes and spend money on the people in order to keep such a large empire from collapsing on itself. He won over the people with his talk and promised many actions would be taken to make sure life was pleasant. Of course Napoleon the third had to keep the army in shape, but the lack of funding they recieved greatly cut down the superior technology, allowing the remaining countries of the world to develop their armies as well.

While Napoleon the third did his best to please the people, his methods compared to Napoleon II were far less brutal, but the massive amount of money going to these methods saw a gap in the technological advances of the Napoleonic empire and the rest of the nations. While the French empire still remained among the top in technology, leaks and spies have made the Americans and British as competitors in the technology industry. Napoleon has noticed this trend and builds his army with his remaining amount of troops and goes ahead and devises a plan to cut the flow of labor in the heavily-industrialized countries.

African Slave Trade Shutdown
Slaves are the root of all labor forces around the world. With the Napoleonic regime still underway, Slavery has existed and the few countries faced with a prospect of global war continued the Atlantic Slave Trade in order to increase production and get funds for the military in the case of an invasion by the omnipotent French Army. Napoleon III new of the reliance these several nations had on the Atlantic Slave Trade, and built an army and navy to stop the trade once and for all.

Napoleon III knew that Africa's disunity would allow underhand transactions to take place and serve as an environment for espionage and information transfer. Although many countries banned the trade of slaves before, with the amount of pressure leaning towards invasion, all of the countries that once banned the transfer of slaves started again, formally repealing the ban against slave trading.The reliance on the weak African kingdoms allowed for an easy invasion of Africa. The lack of defense from the native kingdoms and those participating in the trade allowed the French to establish trading policies which greatly increased the difficulty of obtaining slaves. In order to remain secure on his other borders, Napoleon III ordered a ceasefire against britain and withdrew his troops and used them for the African invasion. With this, Napoleon III had set the stage for a truly Global Empire, as he controlled a portion of the labor systems for any remaining countries and ruled almost all of Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Roots of Global Conflict
With this, the French Empire spanned Asia, Africa, most of Europe, and Australia. The real entities to defeat at the tine were Britain and the United States of America, although they were not as big of a threat. Knowing that France could be knocking on the back door of both countries, Napoleon III sends a massive amount of troops to Quebec, a portion of Canada still under influence by the French, but officially controlled by the British. Allying with the French Canadians would allow a joint destruction of the British holding in North America, allowing for a base of operations between the two remaining powers of the world. Although Napoleon III is not present in Canada, he sends his trusted General, General Aizen to initiate the attacks against the British forces in Canada. While traveling inland through the Hudson River, the British spot the General and his troops, and fire at the plentitude of boats. This makes the French fleet fight back, and the battle of the Hudson river is started this way. The French were in British territory at the time so they took it as an invasion and attacked. The French mearly fought back. Through the intelligence and skill of General Aizen, the French were able to stop the British onslaught completely and continue the trek to French Canada. General Aizen met with the French Canadian resistance leader, and formed a pact. Aizen and his troops went out on patrol the next day, but due to a mapping error ended up in United States territory, and mistook the soldiers and civilians for british ones, massacring a small town in New York. In response, the United States declares war on France and allies itself with Britain for the war.

Final Frontiers, World War
War became global as the United States declared war on France. Britain previously declared war on France, which gave France a hard time fighting on two fronts in Canada. General Aizen, being the head commander for napoleon IV, draws on the inexperienced American troops and fires on those, allowing the French to retreat deep into French Canada. Britain follows suit and attacks General Aizen and his troops in Quebec. General Aizen defeats the first two waves of troops and before the third one arrives, sets sail for mainland Europe, in an effort to draw the war towards a more favorable and known land. Napoleon III, in tradition, comes as General to the first official battle of the war, in the ports of Spain. The French stood on the land and fired at oncoming ships coming through the Straight of Gibralter, a narrow pass for few ships to come across at a time. However, the British troops launched a covert operation on the other coast of Spain. Just in time, General Aizen's troops land in Portugal and prevent the British invasion from occuring. However, a few troops went aroud through the Spanish mountains, down to the sea to support the American troops. Although the French were victorious, the victory was short-lived. On June 15, 1855 at the a British POW assassinated Napoleon III, bringing many French leaders in turmoil-filled regions to their knees. However, General Aizen was quickly promoted to Grand emperor of France, and chose the title as Napoleon V, marking the title to be equivalent to the title of Caesar.

While Aizen is tactical and surpasses all in strategic thinking, the fury of the global war left many regions in East Asia vulnerable, especially to the Japanese, who liberated China and Korea shortly after the death of Napoleon III. Rebellion broke out in Asia, and a rushing British offensive on the French mainland kept the French from holding those territories in Asia. Aizen had many troops return to France and stationed in Africa on a new front, the Desert Front. Aizen focused his troops to hold off American invaders of the African continent. While mainland France fought off British troops, the coastal cities took a large toll, and were forced to be evacuated due to the destroyed infrastructure of the cities. Although the British naval fleet attacking France was destroyed, Britain's large navy assisted the American invasion of Africa. Facing this massive onslaught of fresh soldiers, Aizen was once again forced to withdraw troops from other areas and deploy them in Africa in hopes of fending off the American Troops. Although Aizen's military was the largest ever, the recent allocation of funds by Napoleon III towards the people instead of the military allowed the United States and Britain to advance in technology, and introduce chemical warfare along with the first gatling guns and mortar shells. Aizen consumed most of his troops in Africa, and barely won the first few battles lasting from July 1855 to January of 1856. on February 4th, 1856, Aizen signed the independence act, forcefully liberating all precious colonies outside of Europe and withdrawing ALL troops in those areas. Although the act did not liberate many countries (as they were liberated before with the help of the Japanese), a multitude of soldiers were able to come back and fight the next few battles in Africa. After winning the first battles in Africa, The french took possession of the new weapons in order to replicate them and use them as their own, but did not succeed in time to mass produce them as the United States and Britain developed more complicated weapons as the war went on.

After Aizen's move on liberating Asia, The British were able to move in around the Mediterranean and flank the European extension of the French Empire. Although the majority of the troops were scattered in Africa, Britain scouted up and down the Coast of the Mediterranean, looking for a good place to invade. Back in Africa, Aizen had his men charge the oncoming troops, but fialed miserable as superior firepower mowed down the large number of French troops. Although some land battles were won, the majority of battles were along the coast, and the superior navies of Britain did the French troops in. Aizen issued a retreat, as the British and United States took control of the African front. They set up base along hte coast of Algeria and Tunisia, in order to build the navy up for a final invasion.

End of the Napoleonic Regime
After taking the throne from Napoleon IV, general Aizen aka Napoleon V makes a very rough landing. Aizen lost both battles, The Battle of Fuffaloff and The Battle of Imprint, which lead him to great disadvantage. With the downfall that started occurring during the age of Napoleon IV and the great forces of British and American army and technology Aizen stood no chance. Four months after the Battle of Imprint, Aizen was assassinated by the spies from Britain. There was a much of disorder after the death of Aizen which lead to a global conference taken place in France itself. The conference was joined by the colonized countries previous leaders or someone in high noblemen (only few joined), Britain, America and their allies. The final decision was to free every colonized nation; although Britain tried to take India back, America prevented Britain from doing so. Overall, every thing was back to place with no other nation colonizing other nation and people held on to the motto of "

Cultural continuity
So far, France has been able to capture most of the nations, empires and small states in history. Though people tried to resist Napoleon's way of government and changes that would bring to their daily life, the laws were largely accepted and admired by the untouchables of India, peasants in Europe and many who were under the disadvantage of the special privilege given to rich, high class, noble, priest class. Despite all the differences and diversity in culture, religion and believes, everybody was expected to respect each others ideas and perspectives for these subjects. Although Napoleon and his son were tolerant to other religions and ideas, the government was more powerful than the church or any other idea, as Napoleon stated,"The people must have religion and the religion must be in the hands of the government." Napoleonic Code which was introduced by Napoleon I in 1804 and passed down to his son; it was accepted but with great difficulties. Women were more dominated than ever. Schools were opened and people were encouraged to attend and be educated, but that did not apply for women. While boys of their age went to school, girls helped their mothers in household chores (includes: knitting, polishing shoes, getting their brother's backpack ready for school, making food etc). Some of the Indian cultures were adopted to European culture ; for example, all the family members never ate together. Women were obligated to eat after their husband were done with eating( pretty much like a waiter in modern day, who stands beside if the customer needs anything else), but the practice of sati was clearly disturbing and barbarianism to Napoleon and his followers. Parents were given power over their children; therefore every step in their life was regulated by their parents until they reached their mid 20s or early 30s. . Who ever dared to go against the rules were tortured by the Napoleon's armies ( their gums and nails were poked with needles, some were burned in public for big crime ). The law stated that privileges were not based on birth which caused a lot of sensation, especially in India with its belief in cast system, but on the other hand, it worked out perfectly fine for the Chinese society.There was a revolt started by the nobles and high cast people,all around the globe, but it was put down by a mass genocide. The code allowed a freedom of religion; therefore, most of the religion did not decay; rather, they were practiced freely without any fear. Germany had a highest population of Jewish following population, and Confucianism soon faded with only few following due to its strictness and conservative ideas. On (some special date) people from all the conquered nations came to pay their respect to Napoleon even after he was dead. They brought all the expensive and worth a lot items; for example, they brought elephants, jewelry, cotton cloths from India. From China, silk, fine porcelain was brought and many more. Most respected and followed Napoleon's rule and laws and the few who didn't not accept it were kept quiet by the fear of the torture they could receive.

Trade and Economy
Trade was regulated by Napoleon's army. Tax was regulated very strictly. It was as same as the Mongol Era in the sense that trade was facilitated by the rule of Napoleon. It was easier to move from one place to another without the fear of other nations. People were able to exchange ideas and technology. China was able to put its hand into the new technologies and India was more advanced than when it was under the British rule. People were more educated due to the introduction of Napoleon type school and the encouragement of the government to start joining school ( of-course this mainly focused on male students). Due to the help of easy trade vacation for some disease were spread around, and the population boomed. Some people (young men) went to France to get a higher education and some came back to their homeland to teach and spread their knowledge and help their community; while, some stayed back at France for a luxurious life and great opportunity. Due to trade and great facility for movement, people of all ethnicity were all spread. They were able to share their different ideas, thinking and so much more with people different than them in various ways.

Politics
When napoleon the original began to take power, France was made a republic. slowly, however, napoleon gained more and more power and crowned himself dictator for life. he maintained many of the basic freedoms inspired and desired by those who led the french revolution like the right to own land, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc., but he would support nothing that would cause rebellion. he maintained complete control of the newspapers and actively used propoganda to support himself (a tactic used by all the other napoleons as well). he, at first gave his early conquests to his relatives and made them kings, but in time he took complete control of these kingdoms and reduced his relatives to governors (their level of power didn't change, as they did whatever napoleon wanted anyway, but now they lost any chance of gaining more power or raising a rebellion). his political system remained sound and was applauded for its fairness. he gave peasants more freedom and adjusted the taxing method so that the richer people would pay more. landlords were abolished on the whole and unions were allowed by the government. he took a census every five years starting in 1813 to see what the people wanted to be changed. he gave started public schooling for women the same year though these schools were rarely as good as mens, and he established the first son rule: the first son of every family will go into a special military school to later be enroled in the army. these were fundemental laws of the napoleonic era. these were held up for all of napoleon's rule until his son, napoleon II changed some governing methods. he divided the empire into regions: The western european region, the eastern european region, the arab sunni region(north africa and the middle east up to iran, the shia region (central asia and muslim bits of india, the hindu indian subcontinent, china and the rest of continental asia, and the polynesia. each region had a napoleon chosen by the Great napoleon (first one being Napoleon II. when he died, the regional napoleons would elect a great napoleon from there numbers by popular vote (a napoleon could not vote for himself). these napoleons were reappointed by the great napoleon every seven years to prevent an uprising. each regional napoleon was in charge of what would correlate to the american executive branch. they would execute orders and would order for bills to be made and would sign them. he was the man responsible for conveying the great napoleon's wishes to each region and were the ones in charge of the police- like force. the legislative branch was in charge of proofreading new laws proposed by the executive branch. the members of this branch were elected in a closed ballot by popular vote of people in the region. the judicial branch made sure laws were upheld and prosicuted violaters of the law with either death, a fine, imprisonment, or hard labor. the leaders of the judicial branches were the judges who scored the best on an exam over ethics and law devised by intellectuals across the globe, while the "jury" was made up of citizens of the empire region. the system was very simiilar to ours, and just as effective. after napoleon II died, there were no drastic changes to the government, and this system was upheld until the Napoleonic rigime fell.

Obtaining soldiers
if you have noticed, you will see that napoleon invaded with massive armies, the sizes of which had rarely been seen in history. the only way he could have done this was thanks to his first son rule: the first son of every family must be given to the empire to be enlisted in a military school. these children were trained vigorously not only in arms and military tactics, but also in the arts, science and literature. the military schools were the best schools in the empire and the ones who got through them were some of the brightest people in the empire. they all generally led good careers, if they survived. the wars killed off about 50% of those who graduated from these schools, as the graduates were enlisted in the army and many died in battle. the students at these schools were brainwashed, programmed only to desire the betterment of the empire and the emporer. they were trained to be completely loyal to Napoleon and later the great napoleon, and were the primary reason that rebellions were rare and never gained ground. graduates from these schools totaled to about 400,000 a year, leading to an abundant supply of soldiers. almost all families gave their first son to napoleon. you were only a citezen once you gave a son, and if you weren't a citizen, you would be immediately killed if you were proven guilty of a crime, you could not vote, your children were not allowed to go to school, and you all but didn't exist. generally, these punishments went for children as well, though for them, they would only be deported or killed if they committed a serious crime. otherwise, it would generally amount to a fine.

over time, these military schools became more specialized from region to region. the European schools tended to focus more on tactics and produced able generals and commanders. those in islamic heartlands became very powerful infantry. these soldiers were used to man borders to prevent invasion. the indians were more scientifically oriented and tended not to be as militarily oriented, but instead the researchers developed new weaponry. China was well rounded, while polyponesian military schools had great navigators and had the best navy in the empire.

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 * The AP World History textbook written by Starnes** - demonstrates how Chinese don't like non-Chinese rulers and thus overthrew the Mongol khans once they could. Likewise, when Japan pushed to defeat Napoleon, China joined the bandwagon. Furthermore, Vietnam followed in suit because they don't like outside influences either, as shown in chapter 13.

**[|^]** B.D. Grekov and A.Y. Yakubovski, The Golden Horde and its Downfall - explains why and how Chingis Khan divided his empire into hordes with a great Khan preceding over all the hordes. this shares a great resemblance to what napoleon II did, and even though napoleon II devised this political system on his own, it has a great resemblance and follows a similar pattern as this government system.