WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -What was Napoleon able to accomplish during peacetime? He set up government-run public schools, a comprehensive system of laws, and established a fairer tax code. How did admiral Nelson win the battle of Trafalgar? He divided the French fleet and attacked smaller groups of ships.

Detailed explanation-2: -Undoubtedly, Napoleon’s greatest achievement was the spreading of French Revolutionary ideas across Europe and ultimately the world, which would lead to the revolutions of 1830, 1848, and other efforts by the masses to achieve true libertie, egalite, et fraternitie.

Detailed explanation-3: -He launched a series of committees, which over several years saw the creation of the Civil Code of the French People. This code clarified the laws of the French Revolution, and was better known as the Napoleonic Code.

Detailed explanation-4: -It abolished slavery in France’s colonies. It gave civil rights to Jews and Muslims. It separated Church and State for the first time in Europe. It reformed family law, giving women and men equality in inheritance, secularizing marriage, and permitting divorce for the first time in France.

Detailed explanation-5: -Napoleon was not irreligious in the ordinary sense of the word. He would not admit that there had ever existed a genuine atheist; he condemned Deism as the result of rash speculation. A Christian and a Catholic, he recognized in religion alone the right to govern human societies.