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Louis XVI
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Marie Antoinette
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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide. Also known as the Seven Years War took place in 1756–63. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France -
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Maximillian Robespierre
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens
is a document of the French Revolution and in the history of human civil rights. -
Tennis Court Oath
dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the non-privileged classes of the French nation during the French Revolution -
Storming of the Bastille
A prison on the east side of Paris was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. -
Women's March on Versailles
A crowd of women demanding bread for their families gathered other discontented Parisians, including some men, and marched toward Versailles, arriving soaking wet from the rain -
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. Wikipedia -
The End of the Revolution
Ending the French Revolution King Louis arrived in time to lead a coup against the Directory in 1799, eventually stepping up and naming himself “first consul" effectively, the leader of France. With Napoleon at the helm, the Revolution ended, and France entered a fifteen-year period of military rule. -
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 Wars. -
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Invasion of Russia
The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 and in France as the Russian Campaign, began on 24 June 1812 when 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 then invaded France and captured Paris in the spring of 1814, forcing Napoleon to abdicate in April. He ended up controlling France once again. -
Napoleon Bonaparte's exile to St. Helena
The Allies responded by forming a Seventh Coalition, which defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in June. -
Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.