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The euro area crisis, often also referred to as the eurozone crisis, European debt crisis or European sovereign debt crisis, was a multi-year debt and financial crisis that took place in the European Union (EU) from 2009 until the mid to late 2010s.
The monetary crisis led France to abandon (in 1577) the livre as its money of account, in favor of the écu in circulation, and banning most foreign currencies. Meanwhile, France's military ventures in Italy and disastrous civil wars demanded huge sums of cash, which were raised with through the taille and other taxes.
The San Jacinto Monument is a memorial to the men who died during the Texas Revolution. Although no new fighting techniques were introduced during the Texas Revolution, [317] casualty figures were quite unusual for the time. Generally, in 19th-century warfare, the number of wounded outnumbered those killed by a factor of two or three.
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During the French Revolution and its aftermath, customs houses were burned by mobs; tax rolls were destroyed; excise collectors were made to renounce their jobs, then were run out of town (or in some cases killed). Popular tax resistance was directed both against the toppling monarchy and against the governments that would try to replace it.
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