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The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Year War.
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Marie was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She was the penultimate child of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor.
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Napoleon served as an artillery officer in the French army. Napoleon abdicated the throne.
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Maximillian Robespierre was a French lawyer and politician. He was best known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
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The members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath.
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Bastille was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, had been set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789.
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The Women's March on Versailles was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution.
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Louis was the last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. He was referred to Citizen Louis Capet during the final weeks of his life.
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The Reign of Terror is the label given by some historians to a period during the French Revolution after the First French Republic was established.
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Ending the French Revolution King Louis arrived in time to lead a coup against the Directory in 1799, eventually stepping up and naming himself “first consul" effectively, the leader of France. With Napoleon at the helm, the Revolution ended, and France entered a fifteen-year period of military rule.
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The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleet of the French and Spanish Navies.
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The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars.
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The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 and in France as the Russian Campaign,began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's Grande Armee.
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The Allies invaded France an captured Paris in the spring of 1814, forcing Napoleon to abdicate in April,
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The British government selected Saint Helena as the place of detention for Napoleon Bonaparte.
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The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18, June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day.