Lycée, in France, an upper-level secondary school preparing pupils for the baccalauréat (the degree required for university admission). The first lycée was established in 1801, under the educational reforms of Napoleon Bonaparte.
The Lycées was created in 1801, as part of Bonaparte Napoleon's reforms in the education system, and it was an upper-level secondary French school for boys aged from 10 to 16 years, who came from middle and high classes. The main purpose of these institutions was to prepare males to fill positions for the bureaucracy and military service of Napoleon's government.
Although the application of this law was unfair, the British parliament had all the power to decree this type of action since the settlers had no representation in it and could not show their arguments in front of them or the King. This great malaise generated greater union between the 13 colonies.
By having control of the river, Union forces would split the Confederacy in two and control an important route to move men and supplies. The last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River was the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.