THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
NAPOLEONIC WARS
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based on previous ranks according to estates.
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given to those Napoleon favored but taken away when they fell out of favor.
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based on ability only, not rank or birth.
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designed to benefit the nobility and keep the middle class in its place.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Promotion within Napoleon’s new bureaucracy was based on ability only, not rank or birth. 5. The Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in Belgium.
Detailed explanation-2: -Napoleon Bonaparte had a great influence on French law and French bureaucracy. He created a bureaucracy where advancement in the bureaucracy was based on merit as a civil servant. Promotions based on social rank or privileged birth were abolished.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1795, Napoleon helped suppress a royalist insurrection against the revolutionary government in Paris and was promoted to major general.
Detailed explanation-4: -Born to parents of Italian ancestry, he was educated in France and became an army officer in 1785. He fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and was promoted to brigadier general in 1793.