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  French Revolutionary Wars - Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
French Revolutionary Wars wars occurring in the era of the French Revolution and the beginning of the Napoleonic era, the decade of 1792-1802.
It was desired by many of the revolutionists—with the notable exception of Robespierre —who believed that war would insure the permanence of the new order and propagate revolution abroad, and by the royalists, who hoped that victory would restore the powers of Louis XVI.
This manifesto angered the French and contributed to the suspension of the king (Aug., 1792).
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  French Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the French Revolution (1789-1799) democracy and republicanism overthrew the absolute monarchy in France, and the French portion of the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring.
The Concordat of 1801 between the National Assembly and the Church ended the dechristianisation period and established the rules for a relationship between the Catholic Church and the French State that lasted until it was abrogated by the Third Republic on the separation of church and state on December 11, 1905.
Louis XVI, opposed to the course of the revolution, but rejecting the potentially treacherous aid of the other monarchs of Europe, cast his lot with General Bouillé, who condemned both the emigration and the assembly, and promised him refuge and support in his camp at Montmedy.
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 French Revolution
The French Revolution is a period in the History of France, covering the years 1789-1799, in which the monarchy was overthrown and radical restructing was forced upon the Roman Catholic Church.
The wars of Louis XIV caused debts who grew when wars were fought in the 18th century.
War was waged on Austria (April 20, 1792) and on Prussia (a few weeks later).
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 war and social upheaval: the Napoleonic Wars
War and Social Upheaval: The Napoleonic Wars (1798-1815)
The impact on Germany and Central Europe after wars of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars need to be examined as much focus is usually on England and France.
Nelson defeated the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile fought in Aboukir Bay (1799).
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 Napoleonic Wars - Search Results - MSN Encarta
The Napoleonic Wars, a series of wars between France and a number of European nations, lasted from 1799 to 1815.
They were a continuation of the wars of the French Revolution, in which the Habsburgs and other dynastic rulers of Europe combined in an effort to overthrow the revolutionary government of France and restore the French monarchy.
Napoleonic Wars, series of wars fought between France and a number of European nations from 1799 to 1815.
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 Anglo-French Wars: a chronological listing
Wars of the French Revolution, (1792-1802)-The Wars of the French Revolution spanned a decade of great political, social and military change throughout the European continent.
Thus, this series of wars are known as the Wars of the Coalitions.
Throughout the rest of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Swiss were effectively under French rule with an army of occupation in place.
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 French Revolutionary Wars information - Search.com
The French Revolutionary Wars occurred between the outbreak of war between the French Revolutionary government and Austria in 1792 and the Treaty of Amiens in 1802.
The wars were of titanic proportions, mainly due to the application of modern mass conscription.
This began the longest period of peace during the period 1792-1814, and the crowning of Napoleon as emperor (in 1804) is an appropriate point to mark the transition between the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
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 Education World® - *History : By Region : Europe : France : Wars : French Revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
1848 French Revolution: Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions The Champ-de-mars was one of the turning points in the 1848 February Revolution in France.
1848 French Revolution: Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions Here is an account of the June following the French Revolution of 1848, and of the unrest and fear that pervaded the country and led to the revolts in June.
Schurz describes the French Revolution of 1848 as an eyewitness, and his recollections are interesting and informative.
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 war and social upheaval: the effect on boys' fashions specific 19th century conflicts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The other major war of the 19th century was the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) which resulted in the unification of Germany and set the stage for the modern wars of the 20st century.
The Revolutions of 1848 were a series of revolts caused by a heady mixture of rising nationalism mixed with the economic change resulting from the Industrial Revolution and political and social represson.
The series of wars among the various countries and principalities in thE Balkan Peninsula which occurred between their gaining og independence from the Ottomon Empire and the onset of World War I are collectively known as the Balkan Wars.
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 French Line Infantry
The wars of the French Revolution saw the fledgeling republic fighting for its life against the neighboring monarchies of Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia.
Initially the French infantry wore the white jacket and trousers of the Royal Army, with lapels, cuffs, and collar in regimental facing color.
The body is from Italeri French Infantry, 1806-11, the head is taken from the Esci British Horse Artillery set (with chinscales very delicately removed), and the canteen is scrounged from an Esci Austrian infantryman.
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French nobles who opposed the revolution emigrated to other European countries and encouraged foreign rulers to declare war on France.
While French soldiers were fighting abroad for the revolution, often never quite clear in their minds wether they were looting or liberating the countries into which they poured, the republican enthusiasm in Paris was spending itself in a less glorious fashion.
The forces released by the French revolution were exhausted, the French monarchy was restored and a revolutionary era came to an end.
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 The French Revolt and Empire
The Revolution and ensuing republic saw the toppling of the old French monarchy and its replacement by a series of sporadically violent civilian administrations.
Austria was now fighting a lone war on the continent, and despite local gains she increasingly found herself faced by a new French army general of unusual ability.
With their strategic center breached, the Austrians were unable to prevent the French occupation of Vienna, and in December of 1805 the remaining Allied army catastrophically lost the Battle of Austerlitz to Napoleon, knocking Austria out of the wars for several years.
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 Learn more about List of battles (alphabetical) in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Battle of Abukir - twoo battles - 1798 and 1801 - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of the Nile - 1799 - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Rivoli - 1796 - Wars of the French Revolution
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 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
An Outline of the Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon
French radicals abolished the monarchy and proclaimed a republic.
French captured Malta and then Alexandria where they landed their army which captured Cairo after crushing the Egyptian (Mameluke) army at the Battle of the Pyramids (July 21).
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 The History Guy: Anglo-French Wars
England sided with Protestant Dutch rebels against Catholic Spain and with the Protestant (Huguenot) French against the Catholic French in the Wars of Religion, a series of French religious civil wars.
After the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, the conservative, monarchical powers of Europe attempted to extinguish the new French Republic and restore the Bourbon Royal Family.
Naples was conquered by the French in early 1799 and declared to be the new Parthenopean Republic.
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 American Revolution - American war of independence
To the North of the colonies lay the British province of Canada, with its mainly French speaking population, and to the West the hinterland of the American landmass.
The long and agonising French and Indian War between 1755 and 1762 saw the French forced out of Canada, with Britain assuming government of the French population, and the American colonies released from the threat of French invasion and dominance.
The war began with the attempt by Gage to seize the armaments held by Congress at Concord and the exchange of shots at Lexington.
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 Digital History
Far from being an isolated event, the American Revolution was part of a broader age of revolution that swept across the western world.
One important aspect of the age of revolution was the Latin American wars of independence.
During the wars of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, which raged, with one major interruption, from 1792 to 1815, Spain's New World colonies launched wars for independence.
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 French Wars, 1789-1851
There was therefore a degeneration in the art of war, rather than a 'Military Revolution', and most of the battles ended in either indecisive draws or ignominious routs.
The popular perception is that the mid-19th century French army was dreadfully inefficient (as would be proved in 1870); but in fact it was well abreast of new ideas, new technologies and new methods of training.
The French also used steamships and railways widely during their operations in the 1850s (ie a decade before the Americans) and, unlike the first Napoleon, they won all their wars from the invasion of Spain in 1823 to the liberation of North Italy in 1859.
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 Revolution: The Call to Battle - World History lesson plan (grades 9-12) - DiscoverySchool.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A revolution is a battle fought for principles and ideals.
A revolution may be fought by volunteers, not professional soldiers, who are committed to the principles of the war.
Context: While the French Revolution did not result in a democratic government, it did end the autocratic rule of the monarchy and strengthen the standing of the French middle class.
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 THE NAFZIGER COLLECTION What's New
This is the 8th volume in an ongoing translation of the definitive military study of the early years of the wars of the French Revolution.
THE WARS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, VOL IX By A. Chuquet
This is the 9th volume in an ongoing translation of the definitive military study of the early years of the wars of the French Revolution.
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 New Jersey during the Revolution
New Jersey is called the crossroads of the American Revolution, because it held a key geographical position at the center of the new nation, and the armies were in or crossing it throughout the war.
November through December, 1776, is called the Crisis of the Revolution because it seemed the American army could not stand against the British, and the support for the Revolution came to a low ebb, until Washington reversed the military and political situation by the victories in Trenton and Princeton.
The revolution was actually a civil war, neighbor against neighbor, and it took years after the war to settle the old hatreds.
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 French Revolution : Revolution : Terror : Robespierre : Louis XVI : Marie Antoinette : Napoleon Bonaparte : Guillotine ...
French Revolution : Revolution : Terror : Robespierre : Louis XVI : Marie Antoinette : Napoleon Bonaparte : Guillotine : Napoleonic Wars
After years of increasing dissatisfaction with the way they were treated by the royal family and aristocratic class, the people of France moved towards improving their lot in life by the formation of a National Assembly on 17 June 1789.
Fortunately for France, Robespierre and his cronies were overthrown in the Coup de Thermidor on 27 July 1794 and he was executed, facing upwards, on the guillotine.
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 THE NAFZIGER COLLECTION
When the French Revolution chased the emigre nobles from France they gathered in Holland and on the Rhine, soon forming two armies where noble officers who were only captains or lieutenants carried muskets as simple soldiers and full colonels commanded companies as if they were only captains.
Its story is a fascinating peek behind the covers of the French Army and shows the infighting and incompetence of various generals in the Grande Armee.
Published originally by the Historical Section of the French General Staff in 1905, this is a compilation of reports written by French and Piedmontse officers in 1799, while memories of the battles and the campaign were very fresh.
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 The American Revolution - The Making of America and Her Independence
The term used for the colonies of British North America that joined together in the American Revolution against the mother country, adopted the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and became the United States.
The Treaty of Paris in that year ended the French and Indian Wars and removed a long-standing threat to the colonies.
The leaders in the new country were those prominent either in the council halls or on the fields of the Revolution, and the first three Presidents after the Constitution of the United States was adopted were Washington, Adams, and Jefferson.
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 The causes of the French Revolution and the wars it gave birth may
The causes of the French Revolution and the wars it gave birth may, in general, be pictured as the melting down of the Columbian epoch in a crucible of gold, out of which was cast a new way of life, which I will call the Napoleonic.
There lay stored away the greater part of the world’s stock of gold and silver, and, as after the Seven Years’ War nearly every country in Europe had to borrow from London, the basis of European economic structure was changed from wealth to debt.
Thus it was in command of the whole patronage of the Crown on the one hand, and of the whole body of political patronage on the other." Such was the crucial factor which precipitated the French Revolution.
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 The French Revolution & Napoleon
The Macroeconomic Causes and Consequences of The French Revolution
Periodicals and Pamphlets of the French Revolution of 1848
Reflections on the French Revolution by Edmund Burke 1790
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 WebQuest Template
The French monarchy had grown on a basis of injustice that finally led to its collapse.
French nobles who opposed the revolution emigrated to other European countries and encouraged foreign rulers to declare war on France.
Although French armies conquered Italy and Spain and they defeated Prussia and Austria, Napoleon never gained command of the seas from the British.
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 Napoleonic Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Napoleonic Wars, series of wars fought between France and a number of European
Wars were a continuation of the wars of the French Revolution (1789-1799), in which
the revolutionary government of France and restore the rule of the French monarchy.
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