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Locke's theory states that people form governments in order to protect these rights, but for that to work, people have to follow the laws the government laws or rules.
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argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote in the Leviathan that civil war and the brute situation of a state of nature could only be avoided by a strong, undivided government.
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King Louis XIV moved his court including his government ministers, his official family, his mistresses and his illegitimate children to Versailles.
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France and Austria became allies. To consolidate this diplomatic reconciliation, Louis XV and Empress Maria Theresa decided to marry their respective children.
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To write a new constitution for France, Louis XVL finally gives in and allows Each representative a vote.
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A mob goes to the Bastile looking for 28,000 muskets and swarms the prison and kills the commander when negotiations fail
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French National Constituent Assembly issued the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution. Also was inspired by the writings of such Enlightenment thinkers as Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Voltaire.
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a crowd of women demanding bread for their families gathered other discontented Parisians, including some men, and marched toward Versailles, arriving soaking wet from the rain. The King agreed to meet with some of the women and promised to distribute all the bread in Versailles to the crowd.
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being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. ... On January 21, he walked steadfastly to the guillotine and was executed.
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Was a Dark Period of time, Radicals took control of the revolutionary government. They arrested and executed anyone who they suspected might not be loyal to the revolution.
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Catching the attention of the Committee of Public Safety, Napoleon was put in charge of the artillery of France’s Army of Italy.
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During the Italian campaign, Napoleon sent the Bonelli brothers to Corsica on a mission to get of rid the island of the English. the early years of the Revolution in Corsica, fighting started in a complex three-way struggle among royalists, revolutionaries, and Corsican nationalists. 1,400 royalists died and the rest fled. The defeat of the royalist insurrection earned Napoleon Al lot of instant fame, wealth, and the patronage of the new government, the Directory.
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Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the military during the French Revolution. After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d'état, Napoleon crowned himself as emperor in 1804.
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Napoleon took around 600,000 men into Russia. He planned to confront the Russian army in a major battle, the kind of battle he usually won. Alexander knew this, however, and had a strategy: instead of facing Napoleon's Army head on, the Russians simply kept retreating every time Napoleon's Army tried to attack.
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The final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte, who conquered much of Europe. Through a series of wars, Napoleon Bonaparte expanded his empire across western and central Europe.
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Napoleon was subsequently exiled to the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa and Exiled to the island of Elba. escaped to France in early 1815 and raised a new Grand Army that enjoyed temporary success before its crushing defeat at Waterloo against an allied force under Wellington.
