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The women first marched to the Hôtel de Ville armed with mostly kitchen knives. The women start the march because they were infuriated by the shortage and high price of bread. -
The meeting in 1789 was the start of the French Revolution. The third estate decided to break away form the others. -
On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath in the tennis court which had been built in 1686 for the use of the Palace of Versailles. There they took an oath never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France. -
A state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry mob. Revolutionary insurgents attempted to storm and seize control of the medieval armoury, fortress and political prison known as the Bastille and succeeded. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man was a human civil rights document from the French Revolution.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man helped to form the French Revolution, in hopes of ending the monarchy and establishing a democracy in France. -
King Louis XVI was brought to trial for treason and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793. He was executed in the Place de la Révolution in Paris. -
The Reign of Terror was a period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution. France's revolutionary government ordered the arrest and execution of thousands of people.
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Maximilien couldn't kill his rivals faster than they could unite against him. The Thermidorian Reaction toppled and executed Robespierre, and the Reign of Terror died with him. -
The Napoleonic code got rid of the feudal system and freed peasants from serfdom and manorial dues. It also covers legal interactions between private citizens, including property, contracts, sales, leases, and wills. -
When Napoleon crowned himself, he was showing that he would not be controlled by Rome or submit to any power other than himself. Be was proclaiming himself the highest authority of France. -
In this war the British Army fought in the Iberian Peninsula against the invading forces of Napoleon's France. The war was fought mainly because Napoleon was frustrated by Portugal's defiance of his Continental Blockade against trade with Great Britain.
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The Grande Armée, led by Napoleon, crossed the Neman River, invading Russia from present-day Poland. Napoleon's armies marched into Russia in an attempt to force Tsar Alexander to cease trading with Britain. -
After Napoleon's campaign in Russia ended in defeat, he was forced into exile on Elba. Even while exiled, he still held the title of emperor.
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Napoleon was 51 when he died on the island of St. Helena. There are speculations that his death was caused by stomach cancer.