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Life Before the French Revolution: France was in extreme debt due to Royals and Nobles spending France's money for their own likings.
Painting: King Louis XVI by Antoine-François Callet.
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Storming of Bastille- July 14, 1789; in Paris. An angry mob storms the Bastille searching for gun powder and supplies. After overwhelming the prison guard, they "hacked" the others as well. Today, July 14 is celebrated as "Bastille Day" in France; similar to July 4 in America.
Painting: Prise de la Bastille by Jean-Pierre Houël.
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Radical Phases of the French Revolution- The Guillotine; a medieval execution method used to cleanly chop of the heads of criminals.
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King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette were sent to the Guillotine after trying to flee from France
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The Battle Of Austerlitz happened December 2nd, 1805 between the French, Russian, and Austrian. The French army was obviously led by Napoleon, the Russian army was lead by Alexander the 1st and Mikhail Kutuzov, the Austrian army was lead by Francis ||. The result of this battle was a Decisive French victory, The treaty of Pressburg, Effective end of the Third Coalition, Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Creation of the Confederation of the Rhine.
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The defeat at Waterloo ended Napoleon's rule as emperor of the French, and marked the end f his hundred days return from exile.
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgum, hen part of the UK & the Netherlands.
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