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French and Indian War
It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France. -
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Maximillian Robespierre
French lawyer/ Most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. -
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Marie Antoinette
Last Queen of France before the French Revolution. -
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Louis XVI
Last King of France -
Tennis Court Oath
members of the French Estates-General 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
Prison Bastille was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens
A document of the French Revolution and in the history of human civil rights. -
Women's March on Versailles
Women ransacked the city armory for weapons and marched to the Palace of Versailles. -
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Reign of Terror
Period during the French Revolution after the First French Republic was established. -
The end of the Revolution
Napoleon at the helm, the Revolution ended, and France entered a fifteen-year period of military rule. -
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Napoleon Bonaparte
French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution -
Battle of Trafalgar
Naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies. -
Battle of Austerlitz
First engagement of the War of the Third Coalition and one of Napoleon's greatest victories. -
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Invasion of Russia
Napoleon's Grande Army crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army. -
Napoleon Bonaparte's exile to Elba
The Allies invaded France and captured Paris in the spring of 1814, forcing Napoleon to abdicate in April. -
Napoleon Bonaparte's exile to St. Helena
Napoleon escaped to France in 1815 and raised a new Grand Army, before its crushing defeat at Waterloo. Napoleon was subsequently exiled to the island of Saint Helena. -
Waterloo
Napoleon's forces marched into Belgium, where separate armies of British and Prussian troops were camped.