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French Revolution
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Estates General
The Estates General was the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General. -
Tennis Court Oath
It was a pivotal event during the French Revolution. -
Storming of the Bastille
Occured in Paris on the morning of 14 July 1789, It represented royal authority in the center of Paris. -
Great Fear
It started at the start of the French Revolution. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
A fundamental document of the French Revolution. -
March to Versailles
They were near rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread. -
Flight to Varennes
Louis XVI, his wife and his immediate family try to escape Paris but fail. -
Constitution of 1791
It was the second written constitution of France -
Brunswick Manifesto
it was a proclamation issued by Charles William Ferdinand -
National Convention
This comprised the constitutional and legislative assembly. -
Reign of Terror
It was a period of time that was full of violence. -
Directory
Body of five directors that held executive power. -
Bonaparte takes over
General Napolian Bonaparte takes over France in the "coup of d'eat". Called himself the "First Consul", giving him almost absolute power. -
Concordat of 1801
Argument between Nepoleon and Pope Pius VII -
Louisiana Purchase
It was the acquisition by the USA of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana in 1803. -
Napoleonic Code
The Code, with its stress on clearly written and accessible law -
Napoleon becomes emperor
Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, and made Josephine Empress. -
Battle of Trafalgar
A sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy. -
Continental System
The foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during the Napoleonic Wars. -
Peninsular War
A war between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. -
Invasion of Russia
A turning point in the Napoleonic Wars. -
Exile to Elba
Sometimes known as the Hundred Days of Napoleon or Napoleon's Hundred Days for specificity, marked the period between Emperor Napoleon I of France's return from exile on Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 111 days) -
Battle of Waterloo
An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon was defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. -
Exile to St. Helena
A history of over 500 years since it was first discovered as an uninhabited island by the Portuguese in 1502.
