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Louis XVI
-Was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution
- His execution took place on January 21, 1793 by a guillotine -
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Marie Antoinette
-Was the last queen of France before the French Revolution
- She married King Louis XVI -
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French and Indian War
- Forming a chapter in the imperial struggle between Britain and France called the Second Hundred Years' war... When France's expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British
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Maximilien Robespierre
-Was a French lawyer
- One of the best known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror -
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Napoleon Bonaparte
-French statesmen and military leader
- Led several campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars -
The end of the Revolution
-While American success in the Revolution seems obvious today, it wasn't at the time. The war for American independence began with military conflict in 1775 and lasted at least until 1783 when the peace treaty with the British was signed.
-Treaty (Treaty of paris) is the one that marked the official end to the American Revolutionary War -
Storming of the Bastille
- A state prison east side of Paris was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule and the even became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed
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Tennis Court Oath
- They took an oath never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France (The estates) -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens
-Is a document of the French Revolution and in the history of human civil rights
-Its one of the most important papers of the French Revolution, the paper explains a list of rights like freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly etc -
Women's March on Versailles
-aka The October March
-Earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution -
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Reign of Terror
-The purpose was to purge France of enemies of the Revolution and protect the country from foreign invaders
- Is the label given by some historians to a period during the French Revolution after the First French Republic was established -
Battle of Waterloo
-It was fought near Waterloo and then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Napoleon led his army of some 72,000 troops against the 68,000-man British army -
Battle of Trafalgar
- Was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies
- The battle ended with a clear victory for the British forces this allowed Britain to become the worlds largest sea power
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Battle of Austerlitz
- Was one of the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars
- His 68,000 troops defeated almost 90,000 Russians and Austrians nominally under General M.I.
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French invasion of Russia
- began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army.
- 1812 Napoleon felt he must invade Russia so when Russia abandoned the continental system it was just a matter of time before war. Napoleon was determined to get there first and so led a huge army of 600,000 into Russia.
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Napoleon exiled 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 -
Napoleon Bonaparte 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 and Napoleon was subsequently exiled to the island of Saint Helena off coast of Africa