From the start of the American Revolution France had been supplying arms and money to the rebels oversea. With not much to begin with, the seven-year war took a toll on France's finances and began building up dept. ... When the thirteen American colonies gained their freedom from Great Britain in 1783, the word of independence spread across the globe with great force. After the seven-year war in America was over, soldiers who had fought returned with new ideas of independence. ... There were a few social causes that lead to the French Revolution. ...

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The French revolution was the beginning of the end to the Monarchy and absolute rule. The revolution came about for a number of reasons. ... What is considered by many historians to be the turning point in the revolutions is the storming of the Bastille. ... Came the reply, "No, Sire, it is a Revolution." # Following the storming of the Bastille, the peasants begin to take matters into their own hands. ... At the outset of the revolution, Napoleon returned to Corsica in September of 1789 and organized the National Guard. ...

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With Louis Phillipe's departure after the February Revolution of 1848, Louis Napoleon decided to return to France and begin again. ... Irritated that the French had mettled in North American affairs and thus violated the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, President Andrew Johnson of the United States ordered France and Maximilian to leave Mexico. ... Without his name he might not have ever been elected the president to begin with and the course of European history would have been changed. ...

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