French revolution

Ethan Aspy's French Revolution

  • Storming the Bastille

    Storming the Bastille
    where the revolutionists stormed the Bastille to get supplies to help them in the revolution they also stormed the Bastille based on symbolism due to how the bastille was run by the king and the nobles and by destroying it would show they they have lost power and less strength
  • Louis and Marie Antoinette try to flee France and fail

    Louis and Marie Antoinette try to flee France and fail
    the king and queen have been kept "hostage" in France for a couple of years so they decide to try and make and escape at night and as they reach there destination they are stopped in a town and are caught as the king and queen and sent back to Paris.
  • the King is guillotined

    the King is guillotined
    The revolutionaries of the revolution now feel that it is necessary to kill the main face of the revolution due to the fact that was the reason that the people had started the revolution he sat around and didn't want to help the people that were starving from having no bread or any ways of food. So they guillotined the king.
  • Napoleon fails to conquer Russia

    Napoleon fails to conquer Russia
    Napoleon knows that as the emperor of France he needs to conquer Russia. So therfore he invades Russia with 600,000 troops, as he is successfully invading Russia his troops have made it all the way to Moscow. They arrive in the dead middle of winter, freezing, starving and sick they need shelter they arrive and find it all burned ton the ground. So they retreat, and Russia attacks destroying almost the whole army they return to France with about 20,000 troops remaining.
  • Napoleon defeated at Waterloo

    Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
    Napoleon has just came back to France and the people love and miss him. He sees that France is losing battles and land without the aid of him and his support, So he decides to have one last big battle at Waterloo. Unfortunately it will be the last for him, his army is defeated and Napoleon is exiled forever at a far away island.