Napoleon II of France

O Tempora (a play) written in 1772 Mrs. Grumble's Birthday Rurick ( a dramatic play) Helped set the groundwork for the Russian “westernization” Glorious Revolution King James II of England was a Catholic which made people angry because England was a Protestant country. Replaced their king James II with a joint monarchy of his daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange which were both protestants. People became anxious due to royal succession Established supremacy of parliament…

The Enlightenment, the proliferation of rational ideas throughout the 18th Century, has a dualistic political legacy. The paradoxes it produced were liberalism - emphasising political freedom and representation - and authoritarianism, imperialism and independence. Religion, instead of being displaced by reason, remained to influence and reflect the Enlightenment’s political legacies. Kant may stress “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage” from Christianity but…

European continent. Anchoring point for scholars of terrorism, the French Revolution and its aftermath have helped to categorize acts of violence. Although, the French National Assembly drafted a new constitution based upon the principle of democracy, Napoleon Bonaparte arise as emperor and embarks the nation upon a decade of conquests. His military ambitions and conception of international peace, notably in opposition to Britain, soon engender its downfall. By 1814, the Bourbon monarchy is…

While at The Legion of Honor, I found many paintings extremely beautiful and fascinating. Being able to tour with a docent was extremely helpful and interesting. I chose to analyze Willem van Aelst’s Flowers in a Silver Vase. Since I was a child, I remember being captivated by still life paintings. I am not quite sure why, but I was always drawn to them. When the docent showed us van Aelst’s still life, I immediately decided to write about it. Art historians agreed that Art, whether it is…

was estimated that there were over 200,000 arrests of the people and 17 000 executions via guillotine. Louis XVI was accused for treason. He was then later executed. All of these events made France very unstable. Some people would argue and say - The French Revolution was positive because Napoleon made France come together, this brought the nation unity and a lot of pride. But there is a more outweighing factor; he was a dictator that killed 1-million French and 3-million war deaths. The French…

The first major war since the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the most devastating and unjustifiable wars of all time. The Great War of 1914 began in Sarajevo with the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian terrorist group, the Narodna Odbrana. The war began as a small dispute between two countries but soon spread through the entirety of Europe. The expansion was largely due to alliances made prior to the war. These alliances were made due to fear, revenge,…

and religion, the Thirty Years War was a major event in the course of world history. It all began in the Holy Roman Empire when Ferdinand the II began to restrict the religious freedom of his people. The protestants began to rebel against these limitations, resulting in a war that spanned several countries. Countries such as Germany, Sweden, Austria, France, and Spain, all joined this cause of fighting for religious matters. However, it soon turned into a war to keep military resources disabled…

Native American Sacagawea Sacagawea was a Lemhi-Shoshone woman who interpreted for and guided Lewis and Clark. At 13 Sacagawea was taken as a wife by trapper, Toussaint Charbonneau. When Lewis and Clark asked the trappers if any of them would be willing to guild them, Charbonneau told them about his Native American wife. Sacagawea was pregnant at the time, but managed to aid the men greatly and help them out of intense situations. Her son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau was born during the…

their strong grip on their European territories was hanging by a mere thread. 1774 came in the blink of an eye and they lost Crimea while giving the Russians the authority to protect their Orthodox Christians. By 1798, the French military leader Napoleon Bonaparte had already established his foothold in Egypt and conquered Palestine. While this was taking place, other Muslim dynasties were vanishing as Europe was creating their own path to territorial dominance . Within the Ottoman Empire there…

until 1889. Under Pedro II, freedom of speech was zealously guarded as well other civil rights. But the issue of slavery persisted as Brazil's growing coffee growing industry continued to buy and exploit slaves, with new slaves being shipped to Brazil until the 1850s . Up until this time, “Brazil was a major destination of the Atlantic slave trade.” Brazil continued to have “the largest slave population in the world, substantially larger than the United States.” Pedro II, being a ruler of a…