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Estates General was greeted by Louis XVI in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles
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The mob attacked the Bastille and released the seven prisoners inside.
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An angry mob of nearly 7,000 working women – armed with pitchforks, pikes and muskets – marched in the rain from Paris to Versailles in what was to be a pivotal event in the intensifying French Revolution.
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Reactionaries and the monarchy wanted war because they thought that the new government would be easily defeated by foreign powers.
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The French government sends its former king to the guillotine.
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Fearing opposition within the country, revolutionary leaders began a crackdown that became known as the Reign of Terror.
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An early Republican victory over a Royalist rebellion in the southern French city of Toulon.
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In month of Thermidor in the new French calendar, Robespierre was deserted by his supporters, accused of being a tyrant.
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The government of France during the penultimate stage of the French Revolution.
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Napolean had gained much power now to seize the title Emperor of the French.
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Napoleon's hopes had been set upon a victorious end to his campaign, but victory in the field did not yield him victory in the war.
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Diplomats sat down at the Congress of Vienna to restore Europe's stability after the Napoleonic and Revolutionary Wars.
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The United Kingdom, Russia, Austria, and Prussia organized their armies to defeat a French army under the control of Napoleon, when Napoleon wanted to be emperor again.
