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The Rise of Napoleon At the age of nine, Napoleon Bonaparte was sent to France to train for his military career. Napoleon rose quickly in the ranks during the French revolution. He drove British forces out of the French port of Toulon in December 1793. Bonaparte captured most of northern Italy and continued to defeat the Austrians. Napoleon’s plan to weaken British trade through an Egyptian campaign failed miserably. To prevent word of his defeat spreading, he censored the press. Napoleon’s…

The French Revolution was an uprising in France that resulted in the establishment of France as a republic. It began in 1789 and lasted until 1799. The revolution had major social and political impacts on France. There were many causes of the French Revolution. Some of these causes include debt and taxes, changes in culture, and an ineffective leader. Due to France’s major debt, the king had to raise the taxes. The commoners of France were forced to pay the majority of these taxes, while the…

The Storming of the Bastille The Storming of the Bastille an event that started the French Revolution. The Bastille was a building that was made to protect the French from the English attacking them. The Bastille used to be used as a prison where all the prisoners that were sent there, were sent because the King sent them there. Royal authorities transferred 250 barrels of gunpowder from the Bastille to the Paris Arsenal so it was a lot easier to attack. On July 14, 1789 common people, armed…

families. They killed the guards put their heads on spikes and stormed the castle demanding to see the King and his family. The King met with a group of women and promised to give all the bread in the castle to the crowd. However, soon after the National Guard arrived and demanded that the King and his family come back to Paris with them. Given no other choice the King had to agree. Now he is being held captive in his own palace in Paris. By forcing Louis to come back back to Paris with…

spoke, from the Revolutionary era onward, the inhabitants of France somehow achieved a spirit unity beyond political or administrative structure. Informed by the Enlightenment ideals, French masses were united to bring freedom and equality to their country. From 1789 to 1815, during the…

(1793-1794), which was a period of anarchy in France. A despot refers to government which holds all the power and uses it in an oppressive and tyrannical way. The revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre seemed despotic during the Terror, through several of his actions such as; his exploitation of fear, his de-Christianisation of France and his organized execution of ‘enemies of the revolution.’ Robespierre intended to provide stability in France, nevertheless the subsequent actions proved to…

Political, economical, and social problems in France during the 18th century led to an uneasy state. With the nation in debt due to the Seven Years’ War, unnecessary spending of the government, and the American Revolution, chaos for stability erupted the country. Enlightenment ideology and the success of the American Revolution encouraged a revolt in France. Voltaire, Montesquieu, Smith, Locke, Rousseau, and eventually the principle of Deism affected one of the stages of the revolution. Their…

Now, that we have some background between German, France, and the United States, and the relationship they each shared, we will now get into the differences between political and government structure between these countries. Both Germany and the United States followed a democratic policy, but there are similarities and differences in how each of the countries applied democracy in their countries. For example, the U.S used the majority system, meaning that the majority of the votes win,…

motivated the oppressed lower class of France to have their own revolution. Shortly after the French Revolution, Haiti, a French colony, was inspired by the same ideals and had one of their own. The French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution are very similar in the ideals that drove them, the way they were carried out, and the things they achieved both through the revolutions themselves and their legacies today. In June of 1789, Louis XVI, King of France, summoned the Estates General for the…

laments about English “advantages which our monarchical forms do not accord us (B. Stone, p. 14). Louis XVI’s reign of France from 1774 to 1792 was characterized by financial instability; however, the lack of wealth was not depicted in the lifestyle of Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette. Similar to English Revolution of the 1640s, France was facing the issue of taxation. In France, similar to 1640s England, the royals and the nobility were living in wealth due to an unfair tax system…