Constantine was making his own capital city in monumental fashion, but wanted to give it also the prestige and aura of the Roman Empire. The building of Constantinople took several years, and Constantine modeled it after Rome, with government buildings designed in Roman style.
The existing city of Byzantium was the place Constantine built up and renamed after himself as Constantinople. (That's why the Eastern Roman Empire often is referred to as the Byzantine Empire.)
Today, Istanbul is the name of the city that was once Byzantium and then Constantinople.
The last and succesful anti-Napoleonic coalition was formed by Austria, Great Britain, Russia and Prussia. They defeated and pushed the French army, arrived in Paris and forced Napoleon´s adbication in 1814. The Russian disaster of 1812 weakened the military power of France.
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