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Treaty of Paris
On, Febuary 10, 1763, Treaty of Paris was signed by representitives of Great Britain, Hanover on one side, France, and Spain on the other.The treaty, was created to end the French and Indian War. In the Treaty, Spain and France had to give up some of their land. France gave up Canada and everything east of the Mississippi river, while Spain gave up modern-day Florida. -
The French Revolution Begins
French peasants became extreamly mad because of an unfair tax system and a poor harvest in the previous year. An allegorical depiction
of the Revolution
The Estates began their meeting at Versailles on May 5, 1789 and quickly entered into a power struggle. The Third Estate soon declared itself a "National Assembly" that was representative of the people. This new National Assembly expressed its desire to include the other two Estates in its deliberations but also made it clear that it was det -
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane "Sale of Louisiana") was the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles (2,140,000 km2) of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. The U.S. paid 50 million francs ($11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($3,750,000), for a total sum of 15 million dollars (less than 3 cents per acre) for the Louisiana territory ($233 million in 2011 dollars, less than 42 cents per acre). -
the battle of madina
The Battle of Medina was fought approximately 20 miles south of San Antonio de Bexar (modern-day Downtown San Antonio in the U.S. state of Texas) on August 18, 1813 as part of the Mexican War of Independence against Spanish authority in Mexico. Spanish Royalist troops led by General José Joaquín de Arredondo defeated Republican forces (calling themselves the Republican Army of the North), consisting of Tejano-Mexican and Tejano-American revolutionaries participating in the Gutiérrez-Magee Expedi -
