Napoleon :: European Europe History

short sleeppatriotism is the idol worship of people to the interests of its nation or the love of ones country to stay independent. Nationalism played a major role in the downfall of cat sleep in that he wanted an empire and his opponents wanted independence.As Napoleon was conquering lands and creating a vast empire his troops stressed in the far lands that they conquered life, liberty and equality. Although Napoleon did not realize, it triggered chauvinistic feelings among the conquered nations. Spain, who was an colleague of France, disobeyed Napoleons decree. because in 1808 Napoleon overthrew the Spanish royal family and made his brother Joseph queen regnant of Spain. However, everything that Napoleon did such as put in a unknown ruler, take away noble privileges offended Spanish pride and created superpatriotic feelings. The people of Spain revolted in 1808. The cut troops stopped the riots, but the nationalistic spirit was not lost. For the next five years, in that l ocation was warfare in Spain. British troops came to aid Spain. This led to the defeat of Joseph, death of thousands of French troops and it inspired patriots and nationalists of other lands to resist Napoleon. This war between 1808 and 1813 is called The peninsular war.In Germany, anti-French feelings broke out. However, the French invasions carried German nationalism beyond the piddling ranks of writers. In 1807, writers attacked French occupation of Germany. This nationalistic feeling spread to the Prussians. In 1806, the Prussians were defeated by the French troops. To drive the French out of Prussia there would acquire to be a spirit of cooperation and loyalty. To accomplish this there would have to be social and political reforms. A reformer said that if social abuses were eliminated the Prussians could fight with national honor. Military reforms improved the Prussian army. In the War of Liberation (1813), the soldiers showed great feelings of patriotism and nationalism. A fterwards, the French were driven out of Prussia. Russia, who was an ally of France, went against the word of Napoleon, So Napoleon decided to invade Russia. Napoleons Grand soldiery had 700,000 people in it. Most of soldiers were not French and did not oversee for the war. In 1812 when Napoleon began the invasion, Russia retreated. As they were retreating, they burnt all crops, which were valuable. When Napoleon reached Moscow, the Russians burned the city. Even worse, the winter was in a few months. The Russians also finished the food supply of Napoleon.