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Hopelessly trapped at Yorktown, Virginia, British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders 8,000 British soldiers and seamen to a larger Franco-American force, effectively bringing an end to the American Revolution.
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The March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. Encouraged by revolutionary agitators, they attacked the city and armory for weapons and marched to the Palace of Versailles.
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Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. When the prison was attacked it actually held only seven prisoners, but the mob had not gathered for them.
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An oath was taken by the members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, vowing “not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established.”
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This was a key event in the french revolution (the trial of the former king) since being dethroned in september- before the national convention. He was convicted of high treason and other crimes, resulting in his execution.
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This was a period of violence during the French Revolution by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of “the enemies of the revolution.” The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed.
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The Fall of Robespierre is a three-act play written by Robert Southey and Samuel Coleridge in 1794. It follows the events in France after the downfall of Maximilien Robespierre. Robespierre is portrayed as a tyrant, but Southey's contributions praise him as a destroyer of despotism.
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Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. His coronation ceremony took place on December 2, 1804, in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, with incredible splendor and at considerable expense. Instead, he placed the crown on his own head, and then crowned Josephine Empress.
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Napoleon took control of the government in a coup d'etat or military takeover. He now had the power to make laws, appoint government ministers and declare war. He ruled as a director from 1799 to 1815. Napoleon was not king, but his power was absolute, almost in the same way as that of King Louis XVI
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Continental System, in the Napoleonic wars, the blockade designed by Napoleon to paralyze Great Britain through the destruction of British commerce. The decrees of Berlin proclaimed a blockade, neutrals and French allies were not to trade with the British.
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Napoleon's Grande Armée crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian Army. Through a series of long marches Napoleon pushed his army rapidly through Western Russia in an attempt to destroy the Russian Army, winning a number of minor engagements and a major battle, the Battle of Smolensk, in August.
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Napoleon escaped from Elba in February 1815 and took control of France. The Allies responded by forming a Seventh Coalition, which ultimately defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. The British exiled him to the remote island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic. He escaped his island exile and returned to Paris, where he regained supporters and reclaimed his emperor title.
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When allied forces, consisting of British, Dutch, Belgian and German soldiers, threatened the attempts of European domination by the French general and emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte. The battle marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars, which took the lives of 5 million people
