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Napoleon, Spain, the Colonies, and Imperial Crises
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on April 23, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
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the birth of nations, like the United States, perhaps the            nation, was the effect of global, imperial crises, not the cause of it
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colonies had built up            national identity and they want to be free from their colonial masters
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the story of the freedom of the United States and the separation from the British Empire has family resembles to other                  around the world
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the English were not the only empire dealing with internal conflicts and a global crisis of the              military state
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imperial powers were plunging themselves into a situation where they could not fiscally maintain the colonist land grab which pitted themselves                each other
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the French had not only lost the Seven Years War but they had gone out and                      the American colonists' separation from England which led to intense debt problems
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the debt problem was so big that Louis the        that he called the Estates General together to talk about ideas to reduce the debt
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broke open a debate on the same topic that concerned the American colonists: no                  without representation
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regimes built up over centuries now gets brought into these issues
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how to harness resources from the people to support this escalation of costs to support the colonists
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18th century, a new kind of            war
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war to the death of regimes and entire               
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later in the 19th century, the concept of "ethnic cleansing" comes about
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people bound themselves together as a             
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duty-bound to defend that nation against external or internal threat
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total war is a new form of                  war
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Napoleon capitalizes on this movement and mobilizes "the French people" to uphold certain                  against other regimes
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in the west against           
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a war between peoples, not between                  anymore
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in the east against             , after 1814
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begins to shake up geo-political relations around the world
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theaters of this new kind of total war
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Peninsular Wars
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as the French army moved into Spain and got              down
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this became a war of peoples against peoples
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        's paintings
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the people, themselves become the exercising of mass, political violence
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Egypt
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54,000 troops to Egypt
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with a retinue of archeologists, scientists, artists, and               
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Napolean knew by this stage that if you were going to go to war, let's write about it, let's create epics as we're going along, this was a      opportunity
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won series of battles in           
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wants to cut off the route that British use as access to           
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the prize colony of the British Empire
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take advantage of what is perceived to be a weak                force
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believed that France needed new imperial foundations
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not colonies
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but                    territories
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why Egypt?
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"Great reputations are only made in the              because Europe is too small."
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success against the              armies
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Mamluk dynasty of Iraq (1704–1831, under Ottoman Iraq)
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the battle of the pyramids
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led to collecting and gathering of materials that would be shipped back to France
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did not lead to a French toe hold in the Middle east
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in fact, set into motion a debate in the Middle East
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how the Ottomann Empire was going to respond to the threat of the French by reinventing itself as a nation
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1803: Napoleon sold                    to the United States
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1804: lost Saint-Domingue
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500,000 African              toiled on the plantations
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when the French Revolution erupts in the name of representation and the universality of rights and the idea that all people are born free
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slaves said: why not us?
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why are we              from these universal laws
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1792 slaves in Saint-                 claimed these rights for themselves
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an insurrection over membership in the political community
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by 1800, island in full slave             
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1804, the insurrectionists declared their freedom
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not without a horrible violence and desecration of bodies
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result was a cascade on the slave trade
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Europeans began to debate the legality and justification of the slave trade
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1807
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               banned the slave trade
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U.S. outlawed the                        of slaves
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the old models of commercial networks that held the                  world together were beginning to break up
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Iberian empires
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Napoleon after losing Louisiana and Haiti set sights on             
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invaded Spain and Portugal
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colonies in Latin America participated in discussion of who got rights in these socially stratified colonies
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Simón                              (1783-1830)
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"The Liberator"
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like George Washington against the British, led a series of campaigns against Spanish armies
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a war within a war
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realized that the only way to win this war against the Spanish was to begin to          the slaves
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not just free them but give them weapons to fight and give them             
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1821-1822 breakaway of the colonies from their Spanish and                      motherlands
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flashcard
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government in Iraq that Napoleon fought against
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Mamluk dynasty of Iraq (1704–1831, under Ottoman Iraq)

Spelling Corrections:

Napolean ⇒ Napoleon

Ideas and Concepts:

Thoughts on perhaps the first modern war, via this morning's History Since 1300 class: "In 1798 when Napoleon marched into Egypt with his 54,000 troops, trailing behind him was a retinue of archeologists, scientists, artists, and writers, since, Napoleon knew by this point that if you were going to go to war, you should be writing about it, producing images, and creating epics as you're going along. In this way, Napoleon was perhaps the first national leader to understand that war is an excellent PR opportunity."
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