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Louis XVI was the last King of France before the French Revolution.
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The American Revolution was a colonial revolt. The Navigation Acts were passed to ensure that trade enriched only Britain, barring trade with other nations.
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The First Estate was the clergy, the Second Estate the nobility, and the Third Estate effectively the rest of French society. Third Estate breaks away from Estates-General, and establishes itself as National Assembly
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The Third Estate declared itself the National Assembly of France.The laws the Assembly enacted in these first days were acts claiming the prior taxation laws to be illegal and making promises to institute new, fairer legislation
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Tennis Court Oath was a dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the third estates. They took an oath never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France.
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A state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the 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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Rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread. They ransacked the city armory for weapons and marched to the Palace of Versailles.
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Revolutionaries wanted war because they thought war would unify the country. The Legislative Assembly declared war on Austria.
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The National Convention was the second government of the French Revolution, following the National Assembly. It was the first French government organized as a republic, abandoning the monarchy altogether.
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The execution of Louis XVI,was done by a guillotine. Condemned to death by a large majority. (Pretty Hated)
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It ended with the fall of Robespierre in July 1794.There were 16,594 official death sentences in France, of which 2,639 were in Paris
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The French politician Maximilian Robespierre was denounced by members of the National Convention as "a tyrant". Robespierre was declared an outlaw, and condemned without judicial process and executed the next day.
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The French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years.Inheriting many of the centralized powers of the former Committee of Public Safety,
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The coup of 18 Brumaire brought General Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France, and, in the view of most historians, ended the French Revolution. Dazzled by Napoleon's campaign in the Middle East, the public received him with an ardor that convinced Sieyès he had found the general indispensable to his planned coup
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Napoleon Bonaparte is generally regarded as one of history’s top military tacticians. Napoleon won some initial victories against his enemies, but he suffered a crushing defeat in October 1813 at the Battle of Leipzig.
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A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated.The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium,
