The Cause Of Napoleon's Defeat

In 1802, Napoleon switches his title of “first consul” or “consul for life”, or basically as the dictator, the only ruler of France. And at first no one complained. As long as there was peace and order to the country, they thought all was well. So, Napoleon goes on more wars to fulfill his dream of conquest. Some successful examples are the French defeating and capturing 50,000 Austrian troops at Ulm (558). And other time was when it was:
“At Austerlitz on December 2, 1805, Napoleon tricked his opponents into an attack on his intentionally weakened right flank. He then divided the two armies with a crushing attack at their vulnerable center. When the dust cleared after the battle, the Russians and their Austrian allies had suffered 30,000 casualties, the French fewer than 9,000” (558)
More battles included the battle when Napoleon humiliated Prussian’s Frederick Williams’ army at Jena near Nuremburg, and the Battle of Friedland where he defeated the Russian army. Since Russia lost, they signed the treaty of Tilsit on july 1807 (559). Russia lost the Ionian Islands in the Aegean Sea, and Prussia lost western Germany and a bit of Poland. Russia was also forced to “accept the territorial settlements in western europe”. France in return promised an alliance with Russia to defend and aid from the Ottoman Empire. That alliance with Russia was what made the Tsar to close Russian ports to British ships. Napoleon’s military intelligence and charisma, made Great Britain to stand alone against