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French and Indian war
The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756–63. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France. -
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Louis XVI
Louis was a king of France, he was the last king of France before the tail of the monarchy during the french revolution. -
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Marie Antoinette
Marie was a queen of France, she was the last queen of France before the french revolution. -
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Maximilien Robespierre
He was a French lawyer and was one of the best Maximilien Robespierre of the French Revolution -
Napoleon's Exile to st. Helena
Imagine Napoleon’s dismay when he realised he was not being banished to America as he anticipated, but to the remote island of St Helena in the mid-Atlantic instead. Located 1,200 miles from the nearest landmass off the west coast of Africa, St Helena was the ideal choice for Napeoleon’s exile… after all, the last thing the British wanted was a repeat of Elba! -
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution. -
Tennis Court Oath
On June 20th, 1789, the members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath (French: Serment du Jeu de Paume), vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established". -
Storming of the Bastlle
a state prison on the east of paris, was known as the bastille, was attacked by an angry mob. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a document of the French Revolution and in the history of human civil rights. -
Women's March on Versailles
The Women's March on Versailles, also known as The October March, The October Days, or simply The March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. -
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Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror, or The Terror, is the label given by some historians to a period during the French Revolution after the First French Republic was established. -
The End of the French Revolution
He arrived in time to lead a coup against the Directory in 1799, eventually stepping up and naming himself “first consul”—effectively, the leader of France. -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1805, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. -
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars. -
Battle of Austerlitz
The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars. -
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Invasion of Russia
The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 and in France as the Russian Campaign, began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army. -
Napoleon Bonaparte's exile to Elba
The Allies then invaded France and captured Paris in the spring of 1814, forcing Napoleon to abdicate in April. He was exiled to the island of Elba near Rome and the Bourbon monarchs were restored to power.