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3 days ago · Britain expelled the French ambassador following the execution of Louis XVI and on 1 February, France responded by declaring war on Great Britain and the Dutch Republic.
1 day ago · Louis was beheaded at the Place de la Revolution. Within the nation, "voters" and "appellants", those against or for the execution of Louis, swore undying hatred of each other. The rest of Europe, fearing the outcome of the French Revolution in their own countries, decreed a war of extermination against regicides.
20 hours ago · He was convinced that the king should be found guilty, but he opposed his execution, preferring to see him imprisoned and then banished when peace was achieved with the enemies of revolutionary France. Paine’s role in the trial of Louis XVI is well known.
2 days ago · When Louis XVI was executed, Provence declared the dauphin Louis-Charles King as Louis XVII, assuming the post of regent. When the imprisoned Louis XVII died in 1795, Provence declared himself Louis XVIII. Perpetually in exile, he moved from Italy to Poland to England to Germany.
2 days ago · William de la Pole (1450) – beheaded at sea, possibly by order of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York. James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele (1450) – beheaded in London by rebels led by Jack Cade. James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley (1459) – executed after Battle of Blore Heath for being a Lancastrian.
3 days ago · As Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, he distinguished himself commanding troops during the Revolutionary Wars and was promoted to lieutenant general by the age of nineteen, but he broke with the Republic over its decision to execute King Louis XVI. He fled to Switzerland in 1793 after being connected with a plot to restore France's monarchy.
5 days ago · During the American Revolution, the king of France was Louis XVI. When the conflict began in 1775, Louis XVI was only 21 years old and had been on the throne for just two years. He inherited a kingdom that was facing numerous challenges and was eager to use this opportunity to weaken the British Empire.
