French Revolution

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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 fall of the monarchy during the french revolution
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    Marie Antoinette

    Marie was queen of France, she was the last queen of France before the French revolution
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    Maximillian Robespierre

    He was a French lawyer an was one of the best Maximillian Robespierre
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    Napoleon Bonaparte

    Napoleon Bonaparte was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the french revolution and led survival
  • 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 Bastille

    On July 14 1789, a state prison on the east of paris, was know as the Bastille was attacked by an angry mob.
  • 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.
  • 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 Revolution?

    A watershed event in modern European history, the French Revolution began in 1789 and ended in the late 1790s with the ascent of Napoleon Bonaparte.
  • 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

    Following the Treaty of Fontainebleau, French Emperor Napoleon I was exiled to Elba after his forced abdication in 1814, and he arrived at Portoferraio on 30 May 1814. He was allowed to keep a personal guard of six hundred men.
  • 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.
  • Waterloo

    The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.