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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
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Louis XVI
Louis was the heir to the throne and the last Bourbon king of France. He married Marie Antoinette, daughter of the emperor and empress of Austria, a match intended to consolidate an alliance between France and Austria. -
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Marie Antoninette
Marie Antoinette married the future French king Louis XVI when she was just 15 years old. In 1793, the king was executed then, Marie Antoinette was arrested and tried for trumped-up crimes against the French republic. She was convicted and sent to the guillotine on October 16, 1793. -
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Maximilien de Robespirette
Maximilien was a french lawyer who then became one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution. He was a member of the Committee of Public Safety and was a political figure in 18th century France. -
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon is promoted to general of the Army of the West and was assigned to suppressing civil strife and rebellion against the Republic. He gets promoted agin and eventually wins the battle of Lodi, the battle of arcole and the battle of Rivoli. He makes a up the Treaty of campo-Formio with Austria and returns to pairs a Hero. Later in his life he crowns himself Emperor in Notre-dame Cathedral, Paris. Napoleon goes higher up in command and then eventually he is exiled to Saint Helena. -
The End of the Revolution
The war virtually came to an end when General Cornwallis was surrounded and forced to surrender the British position at Yorktown, Virginia. Two years later, the Treaty of Paris made it official: America was independent. -
Tennis Court Oath
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 vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established". -
Storming of the Bastille
A state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is one of the most important papers of the French Revolution. This paper explains a list of rights, such as freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and separation of powers. -
Women's March on Versailles
A angry mob of nearly 7,000 working women was armed with pitchforks, pikes and muskets. They marched in the rain from Paris to Versailles. -
Reign of Terror
The Committee of Public Safety and the Revolutionary Tribunals condemned thousands of people to die on the guillotine. The Reign of Terror was certainly the most violent period of the French Revolution. Between the two summers of 1793 and 1794 more than 50,000 people were killed for suspected counter-revolutionary activity or so-called “crimes against liberty”. -
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 first engagement of the Battle of Austerliz and one of Napoleon’s greatest victories. His 68,000 troops defeated almost 90,000 Russians and Austrians nominally under General M.I. Kutuzov, forcing Austria to make peace with France (Treaty of Pressburg) and keeping Prussia temporarily out of the anti-French alliance. -
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. However, Napoleon escaped from Elba in February 1815 and took control of France once again. -
Napoleon Bonaparte's exile to St. Helena
Exiled to the island of Elba, he escaped to France in early 1815 and raised a new Grand Army that enjoyed temporary success before its crushing defeat at Waterloo against an allied force under Wellington on June 18, 1815. Napoleon was subsequently exiled to the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa. -
The Battle of Waterloo
the forces of the French Empire under the leadership of Michael Ney and Napoleon Bonaparte were defeated by the Seventh Coalition and a Prussian Army, which was commanded by Gebhard Von Blucher. -
Invasion of Russia
The French invasion of Russia in 1812 was a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars. The campaign reduced the French and allied invasion forces to a small fraction of their initial strength. Its sustained role in Russian culture may be seen in Tolstoy's War and Peace and the Soviet identification with it during the German invasion of 1941-1944.
