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French and Indian War
French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years War of 1756-1763. -
Louis XVI
Louis XVI, born Louis-Auguste, was the last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. -
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She was also born an Archduchess of Austria. -
Maximillian Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre was a French lawyer and politician, one of the best known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. -
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars. -
The End of the Revolution
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence, was a global war that began as a conflict between Great Britain and its 13 Colonies. -
Tennis Court Oath
June 20th, 1789, the members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who has begun to call themselves the National Assembly. -
Storming of the Bastille
The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France the afternoon of July 14 1789. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789. -
Women's March on Versailles
The Women's March on Versailles, also known as The October March. -
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. -
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 War. -
Invasion of Russia
French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 and in France as the Russian Campaign, began on June 24, 1812. -
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 escape from Elba in February 1815. -
Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, June 18,1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. -
Napoleon Bonaparte's exile to St. Helena
In 1815, the British government selected Saint Helena as the place of detention for Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon was taken to the island in October 1815 and dies there May 5, 1821.