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Frech Revolution
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Estates General
Thye were a legislative assembly. It had a seperate assembly for each three states. It dissolved after the French Revolution. -
Tennis Court Oath
This was signed by 576 of 577 members of the 3rd estate. Everyone met in an indoor tennis court. The oath stated that the deputies of the National Assembly delared themselves supreme state power. -
Storming of Bastille
The bastille only held the worst prisoners in Paris, it was full of gun powder. People broke into the Bastille and took the gunpowder and went crazy, they started shooting at everyone and everything. -
Great Fear
Rumors were going around saying that novles were paying men to terrorize the peasants. The men were breaking into peasants houses, burned their legal papers, and even burned down their homes. -
Decleration of the rights of man
The decleration of the rights of man defines the individual and collectice rights of all the estates. It was adopted by the National Constituent Assembly and was prepared by the Marquis de Lafayette. -
Womens March to Versailles
A ton of people, mostly peasant women, marched to Versailles because of th rising price in bread. They all convinced the king, the queen, and the whole French assembly to go back to Paris and see how horrible things were there. -
Constitution of 1791
This was the second written constitution of France. One of the things it said in there was adopting and establishing popular soverenity. -
Louis and Marie's flight to Varennes
Louis, Marie and her family tried to escape from Paris to initiate a counter revolution. They were only able to make it to Varennes, so they were unseccussful. -
Brunswick Manifesto
This was issued by Charles William Ferninand, who was the Duke of Brunswick. This said that if the French Royal Family were harmed , the French civilianists would be harmed as well. -
National Convention
This compromised the constitutional and legislative assembly. It also held executive power in France during the first years during the French First Republic. -
The Reign of Terror
This started with a ton of executions of people of the state. Directed by the Committee of Public Safety, the Revolutionary government's Terror was essentially a war dictatorship, instituted to rule the country in a national emergency. -
Directory
The directory split into two eras, the First Directpry, and the Second Directory. The directory systme of government was used in several French client republics, and in modern switzerland. -
Napoleon Bonaparte takes over
Napoleon establishes a new legal code, he mdoernized Paris, and he created a stronger centralized government. -
Concordat of 1801
The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase encompassed all or part of 15 current U.S. states and two Canadian provinces.The purchase, which doubled the size of the United States, comprises around 23% of current U.S. territory. -
Peninsular War
The Peninsular War[3] was a war between France and powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. -
Napoleonic Code
Also knows as the French civil code. It was the first modernized legal code to be adopted with a pan-European scope and it influenced influenced the law of a lot of the countries formed during and after the Napoleonic Wars. -
Napoleon Becomes Emporer
Napoleon was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution. He was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815. -
Battle of Trafalgar
This was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars. -
Continental System
This was the foreign policy of Napoleon of France in his struggle against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during the Napoleonic Wars. -
Invasion of Russia
This is also known as the Great Patriotic War. It was the turning point for the the Napoleonic Wars. Nearly half a million strong, the Grande Armée marched through Western Russia, winning a number of relatively minor engagements and a major battle at Smolensk. -
Exile to Elba
The European powers exiled Napoleon to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean. Within eleven months, Napoleon was back on the European continent at the head of a hastily-raised army intent on restoring Napoleon to the throne of France. -
Battle of Waterloo
This battle put an end to the tyrant rule of Napoleon as the emporer of France. -
Exile to St. Helena
After his final defeat at Waterloo and his subsequent second exile, Napoleon Bonaparte spent 10 weeks on board the HMS Northumberland as it sailed him to the far away reaches of the South Atlantic.
