Graphic Decade of 
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| 10 Napoleon's Rambouillet Decree, issued in retaliation for the USA's embargo of France under President Thomas Jefferson, orders American ships seized and sold. Napoleon's Fontainebleau Decree |
11 Napoleon establishes the Ministry of Manufacturers and Commerce, France's first economic ministry. Production of sugar from sugar beets begins, as a substitute for cane sugar no longer available due to the British boycott and Napoleon's Continental System. Marie Louise Bonaparte gives birth to Napoleon's son. |
| 12 June: The Grand Armée, 500,000 strong, invades Russia. Sept: Napoleon and French army enter Moscow. Oct: Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow. Dec: Prussia abandons its treaty with France and enters truce with Russia. |
13 Battle of Lutzen. Battle of Dresden. Treaty Alliance of Teplitz,(*) whereby Britain agrees to pay 1 million pounds to Austria in exchange for Austria's placing 150,000 men in the field Battle of the Nations at Leipzig. Confederation of the Rhine collapses. |
| 14 Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba. Louis XVIII returns to Paris Treaty of Paris. |
15 March: Napoleon lands at Golfe-Juan, near Cannes, France, and begins his march to Paris. Louis XVIII flees to Gent, Belgium. June: Battle of Waterloo. |
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