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The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Year's War. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France.
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Louis XVI was the last king in France in the line of the Bourbon monarchs preceding the French Revolution of 1789. He was executed by guillotine in 1793.
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Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France who helped provoke the popular unrest that led to the French Revolution and to the overthrow of the monarchy in August 1792.
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Maximilien de Robespierre was an official during the French Revolution and one of the principal architects of the Reign of Terror. He was a radical Jocobin leader and one of the principal figures in the French Revolution.
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Napoleon Bonaparte was a military general and the first emperor of France who is considered on of the world's greatest military leaders. His drive for military expansion changed the world.
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On July 14, 1789 Bastille was attacked by a angry and aggressive mob.
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Is a document of the French Revolution and in the history of human civil rights.
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An angry mob of nearly 7,000 women armed with pitchforks, pikes and muskets marched in the rain from Paris to Versailles, where the captured the king and queen and took them back to Paris.
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In Versailles, France, the deputies of the Third Estate meet on the Jeu de Paume, and indoor tennis court, in defiance of King Louis XVI's order to disperse, In these modest surroundings, they took a historic oath not to disband until a new French constitution bad been adopted.
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Its purpose was to purge France of enemies of the Revolution and protect the country from foreign invaders.
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Napoleon arrived in Paris on time to lead a coup against the Directory in 1799, eventually stepping up and naming himself "fist consul", the leader of France, With Napoleon at the helm, the Revolution ended, and France entered a fifteen-year period of military ruler.
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One of the most decisive naval battles in history, a British fleet under Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar, fought off the coast of Spain.
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The first engagement of the War of the Third Coalition and one of Napoleon's greatest victories.
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The Invasion of Russia began when Napoleon's Grande Armee crossed the Neman River in a attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army.
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Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne and in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba.
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He was exiled to the island of Elba near Rome. Napoleon escaped from Elba in February 1815 and took control of France once again.
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The Battle of Waterloo took place in Belgium, and marked the final defeat of French military leader and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.