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French Indian War
The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Year's War of 1756 to 1763. It pitted the colonies of British American against those of New France. -
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Louis XVI
Louis XVI, born Louis Auguste was the last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. His execution was a major event of the Revolution. -
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Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She was convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of high treason and executed by guillotine on the Place de la Revolution on October 16, 1793. -
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Maximillian Robespierre
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and politician, one of the best known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. He encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine of more than 17,000 enemies of the Revolution. -
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoléon Bonaparte was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars. -
The End of the Revolution
The Peace of Paris was signed on September 3, 1783 and thats when the American War of Independence officially ended. -
Tennis Court Oath
The Tennis Court Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate. -
Storming of Bastille
The Storming of Bastille occurred in Paris, France on the afternoon of July 14th 1789. The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. The prison became a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and citizen
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the citizen, set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789. A document of the French Revolution and in the history of human civil rights. -
Women's March on Versailles
The Women's March on Versailles was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. The march began among the women in the marketplaces of Paris, on the morning of October 5th, 1789 were near rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread. -
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Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror is the label given by historians to a period during the French Revolution after the First French Republic was established. A period of violence during the French Revolution emanating from conflicts between the Girondins and the Jacobins. -
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars. -
Battle of Austerlitz
The Battle of Austerlitz was one of the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle took place near Austerlitz in Moravia after the French ad entered Vienna on November 13 and then pursued the Russian and Austrian allied armies into Moravia. -
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French Invasion of Russia
The French invasion of Russia known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 in France as the Russian Campaign. It began on June 24th, 1812 when Napoleon Grande crossed the Newman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army. -
Napoleon Bonaparte exile to elba
Following the Treaty of Fontainebleau, French Emperor Napoleon I was exiled to Elba after his forced abdication in 1814, and he arrived in Portoferraio on May 30th 1814. He was allowed to keep personal guard of six hundred men. napoleon escaped from Elba in February 1815 and took control of France once again. -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, June 18th 1815 near Waterloo in the present day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. This battle marked the final defeat of French military leader and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, who conquered much of continental Europe in the early 19th century. -
Napoleon Bonaparte exile to St. Helena
The British exiled him to the remote island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic, where he died six years later at the age of 51.