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French and Indian war
The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756–63. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France. -
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Louis XVI
Last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. He was referred to as Citizen Louis Capet during the final weeks of his life -
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Marie Antoinette
last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an Archduchess of Austria, and was the penultimate child of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor -
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Maximillian Robespierre
French lawyer and politician, 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 statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars -
Tennis Court Oath
On June 20th, 1789, the members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath, vowing " -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens
is a document of the French Revolution and in the history of human civil rights -
Women's March on Versailles
was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. -
Reign of 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 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 Armée 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. -
Napoleon Bonaparte's exile to St. Helena
The Allies then invaded France and captured Paris in the spring of 1814, forcing Napoleon to abdicate in April. -
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. -
Storming of the Bastille
The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris.