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2 days ago · French (1792–97) 100,000 killed in action [2] 150,000 captured [2] Italian campaign of 1796–97 45,000 killed, wounded or captured (10,000 killed) [2] 10,000 killed in action (navy) [3] The French Revolutionary Wars ( French: Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French ...
May 17, 2024 · Two factors contributed considerably to the outbreak and to the course of the early years of the French Revolutionary wars: (1) the weakness of France caused by the Revolution itself, which from the meeting of the Estates-General in May 1789 continued with mounting intensity and throughout the first three campaigns (1792, 1793, and 1794); and ...
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May 17, 2024 · French Revolution, revolutionary movement that shook France between 1787 and 1799 and reached its first climax there in 1789—hence the conventional term ‘Revolution of 1789,’ denoting the end of the ancien regime in France and serving also to distinguish that event from the later French revolutions of 1830 and 1848.
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- The French Revolution was a period of major social upheaval that began in 1787 and ended in 1799. It sought to completely change the relationship b...
- There were many reasons. The bourgeoisie—merchants, manufacturers, professionals—had gained financial power but were excluded from political power....
- King Louis XVI of France yielded to the idea of a new constitution and to the sovereignty of the people but at the same time sent emissaries to the...
- In some respects, the French Revolution did not succeed. But the ideas of representational democracy and basic property rights took hold, and it so...
2 days ago · This is a list of wars involving modern France from the abolition of the French monarchy and the establishment of the French First Republic on 21 September 1792 until the current Fifth Republic. For wars involving the Kingdom of France (987–1792), see List of wars involving the Kingdom of France.
1 day ago · The French Revolution [a] was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate. Many of its ideas are considered fundamental principles of liberal democracy, [1] while its values and institutions ...
May 13, 2024 · The French Revolution and Napoleon: A Sourcebook by Philip Dwyer (Editor); Peter McPhee (Editor) Call Number: Online - Ebook Central. ISBN: 9780415199087. An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution by Mary Wollstonecraft. Call Number: Online - free - Library of Liberty.
6 days ago · Politics. The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 by Lester D. Langley. Publication Date: 1996-11-27. This magisterial work is a comparative history of three important revolutions in the Americas: the American Revolution in 1776, the 1791 slave revolt in the French colony that became Haiti, and the prolonged Spanish-American struggle ...
