and one of the largest factions in revolutionary France, the Gironde, is calling for war against Austria. The French people’s hatred of Marie Antoinette has always fuelled suspicion of the ...
The wars between England and France spanned more than seven centuries. The most famous of these conflicts were the Hundred ...
a commercial agreement that ended the so-called Quasi War. Napoleon would eventually declare himself "Emperor of the French." John Adams had feared just such a chaotic end: A revolution of this ...
The French Revolution would have an enormous ... They would eventually find themselves at war with revolutionary France. Britain would be part of this attempt to stop France.
MIDDLEBURY - French Army Gen. Jean-Baptiste Rochambeau and his troops marched directly through this area in the summer of ...
This lesson explores the weapons used by the British, French, Dutch, Hessians, and Americans during the Revolutionary War era. The lesson, which features Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ...
The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe into a war, but also touched off slave uprisings in the Caribbean. On Saint Domingue, the free people of color began the chain of ...
Zack White, of the Napoleonic & Revolutionary War Graves Charity, said the marked graves in Alresford were a rare example of a burial site of French prisoners on English soil. Research has shown ...