french revolution
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- Tennis Court Oath
- The doors are locked! What do we do!
- This should be King Louis XVI's attack! We need to find a new place
- Storming of the Bastille
- STORM THE BASTILLE!!! GET ALL THE GUNPOWDERS AND WEAPONS!!
- Execution of King Louis XVI
- Thats what you get for being a unfair KIng!!
- They relocated to a nearby indoor tennis court after being barred from their usual meeting location at Versailles on June 20, 1789, and believing that the king was pressuring them to disband. They pledged they would not divide until France had a written constitution.
- The Reign of Terror
- Our town's people have been going through some difficult and frightening times. This is known as the Reign of Terror, which was brought about by the terrible Maximilien Robespierre.
- On July 14, 1789, an enraged and hostile mob stormed the Bastille, a state prison on Paris's east side. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial control, and the episode became a defining event of the Revolution.
- Coup of 18th Brumaire
- In 1792, France was under siege due to an attack by the Austrian army and its Prussian allies. The populace thought King Louis XVI was a traitor since he wanted to leave the country in secret. On August 10, 1792, 20,000 Parisians stormed the Tuileries, King Louis XVI's official palace.
- French Revolutionary Wars
- The Austrian army and its Prussian allies attacked France in 1792, putting the country under siege. Because King Louis XVI sought to flee the realm in secret, the people assumed he was a traitor. 20,000 Parisians attacked the Tuileries, King Louis XVI's official residence, on August 10, 1792.
- The Coup of 18–19 Brumaire (November 9–10, 1799), which overthrew the Directory and replaced it with the Consulate, paved the way for Napoleon Bonaparte's autocracy in France. The episode is often seen as the culmination of the French Revolution.
- As a result, the French Revolutionary Wars, a series of military clashes that lasted from 1792 to 1802, erupted. Despite setbacks, under Napoleon Bonaparte's leadership, France was able to capture a wide range of territories by 1802, from the Italian Peninsula and the Low Countries in Europe to the Louisiana Territory in North America.
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