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During the Norman conquest of England the french won the important "Battle of Hastings" under William the Conquerer.
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Joan of Arc is born. She will later come to lead the french to many victories against the english.
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The English defeat the numerically superior French army during the hundred years war.
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The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Roman Catholic mob violence, both directed against the Huguenots, during the French Wars of Religion.
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The French Revolution was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France that had a major impact on France and indeed all of Europe.
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The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana in 1803. The United States paid 60 million francs to Napoleon Bounaparte in return for the land.
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D-Day was the landing in Normandy during World War 2 in which the United States liberated the beach of Normandy and later liberated all of France from Nazi control.
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On August 15 the Allies launched Operation Dragoon — the invasion of Southern France between Toulon and Cannes.
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During his reign, he conquered Italy and was crowned Imperator Augustus by Pope Leo III on 25 December 800.
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After Lothair's son Louis died in May of 987, Adalberon and Gerbert of Aurillac convened an assembly of nobles to elect Hugh Capet as their king.