Napoleon Was Not a Fan of The Bank of France

1800

France

The Bank of France was created in Paris and was modeled after the Bank of England. Napoleon was not a big fan of The Bank of France.

"The hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency: their sole object is gain". — Napoleon

USA

US national Debt $82,976,294.


1801

Germany

William IX, ruler of the state of Hesse-Kappel appoints Mayer Amschel Rothschild as court agent to give advice on matters of finance and art to himself and other European princes.

USA

Thomas Jefferson sent the US Navy to Tripoli. He prepared to wage a war to ensure that US vessels could sail uncontested through the waters of the Barbary pirates. The Barbary pirates would demand a fee for safe passage yearly. The US was beaten in some of the battles but by 1815 the US forced the pirates to sign a treaty allowing freedom of passage for US boats through the Mediterranean.

1803

Denmark

Rothschild lends 20 million francs to the Danish government.

France and the USA

In 1803 Thomas Jefferson and Napoleon had struck a deal. The U.S. would give Napoleon $3 Million in Gold in exchange for the Louisiana Territory. Napoleon took this money and set out about Europe to conquering everything in his path.

The Bank of England which went about financing every nation in his path to oppose him (at a profit of course). Prussia, Austria, and Russia all went heavily into debt trying to oppose Napoleon. While the French army was in Russia, Nathan Rothschild, the head of the London office of the Rothschild family organized a smuggled shipment through France to finance an attack by the Duke of Wellington of Spain. This led to Louise XVIII of France becoming king.

1806

Mexico

Captain Z.M. Pike and a platoon of troops invaded Spanish territory in Mexico at the headwaters of the Rio Grande.

1810

USA

US National debt $53,173,217.


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