How Is Napoleon Bonaparte Successful

With trembling legs, you walk up onto the platform realizing that in less than a minute, you will no longer see your family again, feel the wind in your hair, or feel the sun on your glistening skin. You lye down on the hard, cold bench waiting for the blade to drop, seconds later you hear the crowd gasp, and are no longer conscious. Over 16,000 people experienced this during the French Revolution due to the mass numbers of rebels revolting against the assembly and their laws. The machine that conducted this was called the guillotine, which made this time in history very dark and defying. However, the French Revolution soon ended afterwards because of a general named Napoleon. Some don’t believe the revolution ended and was successful,

During the revolution, he was promoted spots three times and in the end he became the General of the French army. Instead of letting the parties make the decisions, he made sure that nationalism would unite them all, and lead them in the direction of success. In order to do this, Napoleon had to change a lot of the already existing policies including the economic, religious, and education policies. Napoleon increased trade between regions, made the tax systems fair between the three estates, and created a new code called the Napoleonic code. Education levels skyrocketed during his ruling, along with the creation of new schools, and encouragement of education for girls. Napoleon also freed the slaves in Europe, and allowed freedom of religion instead of strictly just catholicism. Many argue that Napoleon kept the mayhem going with the amount of wars he fought and failed, and the ridiculous laws he formulated, making his brothers the Kings of different nations because of divine right. However, all leaders have flaws and Napoleon fulfilled the third estates goals, which was to be equal and have the same rights as the first two estates. Therefore he ultimately ended the revolution and started a new system for France that favored