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French and Indian War
It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France.It was compromised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Year's War of 1756-63. -
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Louis XVI
Louis XVI was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revoultion. He was guillotined in 1793. -
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Marie Antoinette
Marie was the last queen of France before the French Revoultion. She helped provoke the popular unrest that led to the French Revolution. -
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Maximillian Robespierre
Maximillian was a french lawyer and politician, he was the architect of the French Revoultion's Reign of Terror, he's overthrown and arrested by the National Convention. -
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Napoleon Bonaparte
He was a French statesman and military leader during the French Revolution and led many campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars. After seizing political power in France in 1799, he crowned himself emperor in 1804.He conquered most of Europe. -
Tennis Court Oath
Members of the French Estates-General for the third estate, who has begun to call themselves the National Assembly. Act of defiance by representatives of the non privileged classes of the French nation during the meeting of the Estates-General at the beginning of the French Revoultion. -
Storming of the Bastille
A state prison on the east side of Paris, it was attacked by angry and aggressive mob. The prison has become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the revoultion that followed. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens
Set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, a document of the French Revoultion and in the history of human civil rights. -
Women's March on Versailles
A crowd of women demanding bread for their families gathered other disconnected Parisians, even some men, and marched toward Versailles, arriving wet from the rain. -
Reign of Terror
The label given by some historians to a period during the French Revoultion after the French Republic was established. -
Battle of Trafalgar
It was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish navies, during the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars. -
Battle of Austerlitz
It was on the the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars. His 68,000 troops defeated almost 90,000 Russians and Austrians normally under General M.I. -
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French Invasion of Russia
At the time of the invasion, Napoleon was at the height of his power with virtually all of continental Europe either under his direct control of held by countries defeated by his empire and under treaties favorable to France. -
Napoleon Bonaparte's exile to Elba
Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history. -
Waterloo
It marked the final defeat of French Military leader Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon rose through the ranks of the French army during the French Revoultion. -
Napoleon Bonaparte's exile to St. Helena
The British Government chose to Saint Helena as the place of declaration for Napoleon Bonaparte