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The French Revolution (French: Révolution française [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) was a period of political and societal change in France which began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the Coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799.
The French armies which had been sent to recover Haiti in 1803 had, like the British armies earlier, been ravaged by disease, so only isolated garrisons opposed the British forces. In 1805, as part of the manoeuvres which ultimately led to the Battle of Trafalgar , a French fleet carrying 6,500 troops briefly captured Dominica and other islands ...
The French Revolution had a major impact on Europe and the New World. Historians widely regard the Revolution as one of the most important events in European history. [1] [2] [3] In the short-term, France lost thousands of its countrymen in the form of émigrés, or emigrants who wished to escape political tensions and save their lives.
The French forces easily handled the Peasants' rebellion in the Southern Netherlands, and were able to put down the revolting forces in under 2 months. The French in 1798 fought an undeclared war at sea against the United States, that was known variously as the "Quasi-War", the "Half War" and the "Pirate Wars
The Revolution Controversy was a British debate over the French Revolution from 1789 to 1795. [1] A pamphlet war began in earnest after the publication of Edmund Burke 's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), which defended the House of Bourbon , the French aristocracy , and the Catholic Church in France .
The French expedition to Ireland, known in French as the Expédition d'Irlande ("Expedition to Ireland"), was an unsuccessful attempt by the French Republic to assist the outlawed Society of United Irishmen, a popular rebel Irish republican group, in their planned rebellion against British rule during the French Revolutionary Wars. The French ...
The British periodical press and the French Revolution, 1789–99 (Macmillan, 2000) Baer, Werner. "The Promoting and the Financing of the Suez Canal" Business History Review (1956) 30#4 pp. 361–381 online; Baugh, Daniel A. The Global Seven Years' War, 1754–1763: Britain and France in a Great Power Contest (Longman, 2011) Black, Jeremy.
[1] Price starts out by establishing that he believes in patriotism, in love of one's own country. Because the revolution was overthrowing the French rulers and was seen as a dangerous example by the English political class, it was important to assert the fact that revolutionaries can be as "patriotic" as defenders of the country as it was.