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the work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government
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a work of political philosophy published anonymously by john locke
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is the American name for the North American theater of the Seven Years' War.
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a political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break from the British Empire
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King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before his deposition and execution during the French Revolution.
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the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General, a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (First Estate), the nobles (Second Estate), and the common people (Third Estate).
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The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789.
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Rural unrest had been present in France since the worsening grain shortage of the spring, and the grain supplies were now guarded by local militias due to rumors that bands of armed men were roaming the countryside.
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is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal.
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was a French lawyer, politician, and one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution.
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a significant episode in the French Revolution during which King Louis XVI of France, his wife Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family attempted unsuccessfully to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution.
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a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution".
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Robespierre is executed july 28 1794
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staged a coup de tat in 1799
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was a turning point during the Napoleonic Wars. It reduced the French and allied invasion forces (the Grande Armée) to a tiny fraction of their initial strength and triggered a major shift in European politics as it dramatically weakened French hegemony in Europe.
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In the Treaty of Fontainebleau, the victors exiled him to Elba
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he defeat at Waterloo ended his rule as Emperor of the French, marking the end of his Hundred Days return from exile.
