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Guillotine
The Guillotine was a death penalty device. The device caused instant death which caused no pain to the victims. They figured that this was a fair, humanely, and efficient way to go about killing people that posed a threat. -
Storming of the Bastille
the 3rd estate heard that they were sending troops to riots, and they saw an opportunity to free people and get weapons from the Bastille. They destroyed the Bastille and got all of the weapons they had and killed the guards there. -
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French Revolution
The reason the French Revolution began was because the king and queen did not support the people, and they thought of themselves as the highest power, and that everyone else was peasants. They did not know that they're country was starving and they thought they were doing a fine job. -
Flight to Varennes
The King and Queen of France attempted to escape from France and flee over to Austria where they would be much safer. But at one of they're last towns on the way to Austria, they were recognized by someone on the street. They were then returned to France and both killed by the Guillotine. -
Napoleon invades Russia
610,000 men invaded Russia, heading towards Moscow, in the beginning of summer. The Russian army retreated before the French and again burnt their crops and villages, denying the enemy their use. And as soon as winter came, Napoleon decided to retreat his troops, and as soon as Russia heard that they came back and fought them leaving less than 100,000 of Napoleons troops left. Napoleons army was too fatigued and weak to fight anymore, and especially in the middle of A Russian Winter. -
War of Waterloo
Napoleon led his 72,000 troops into Great Britain against 68,000 British troops. This war took place south of current day Brussels. But Britains Ally Prussia came in and they helped lead Britain to victory.
