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It marks the beginning of the French Revolution.
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On June 20th the tennis court was taken. It was a meeting that never stopped until constitution was established.
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The Bastille was a large medieval fortress that functioned as a prison in Paris in 1789. It had become a symbol of all that the French resented about their country and their government: corruption in the nobility
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Liberty, Property, Safety and Resistance to Oppression.
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women from the marketplaces of Paris led the March on Versailles on October 5, 1789.
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Louis XVI was put to death by guillotine. He was put to death for high treason.
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the leader of the Jacobin club, used a revolutionary tribunal to arrest people who seemed to be against the republic nation. They were guillotined, when found guilty.
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Robespierre and his followers were arrested at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris
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Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris. According to legend, during the coronation he snatched the crown from the hands of Pope Pius VII and crowned himself, thus displaying his rejection of the authority of the Pontiff.
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The Napoleonic Code was the result of a major revision to France's legal system, which was outdated and confusing at the time.
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the British Army fought a war in the Iberian Peninsula against the invading forces of Napoleon's France.
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On June 24, 1812, Napoleon's army of over 600,000 men crossed the Niemen River from present-day Poland into Russia.
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The coalition invaded France and captured Paris, forcing Napoleon to abdicate in April 1814. They exiled him to the Mediterranean island of Elba and restored the Bourbons to power. In February 1815.
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he physicians who conducted Napoleon's autopsy, on May 6, 1821, concluded that his death was from stomach cancer, exacerbated by bleeding gastric ulcers, after a huge dose of calomel