The French Revolution was an internal struggle between France's people and its rulers. ... The French Revolution was one of the bloodiest revolutions in history; it was responsible for taking the lives of thousands of Frenchmen. ... The ideas in France were further aided by the transmission of Revolutionary thoughts from America back into France. Many French Troops (mainly the Bourgeoisie) came back encouraged by the revolution to introduce a revolution in France. ... At this point Revolutionary War began, and it was among the bloodiest in history. ...

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This long-lasting war was a battle between Great Britain and France. ... Great Britain looked to the U.S. as a source of supply also but had more suppliers than France did according to the text book (Exploring American History pg.286). Moreover, the U.S. was France's major source of supply, the British passed the Orders in Council. The Orders in Council were laws forbidding American ships to enter French controlled ports. ... Or as another example when France put up a blockade against Great Britain. ...

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The French Revolution was more of a failure than a success due to Napoleon actually killing innocent people while trying to rebuild France. ... The French Revolution was a success because it eventually led to the ending of the monarchy in France, but at first the war directly ended and there was a new monarchy. Napoleon ended up being a dictator type leader and was exiled from France due to his faults as a leader. He also killed innocent French people while trying to rebuild France. ... The Haitian Revolution made France acknowledge their independence, but they had their economic structure com...

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The war of 1812, an unnecessary war fought between Great Britain, United States, and France, was partly a result of the successes of Napoleon and his French army. ... One tactic of the English was to restrict trade between France and any countries allied with France. ... The Americans had been supplying many needed goods to France. ... So Britain wouldn't take over France? ... We see this through, Napoleons history, he would gain control and he would just want more. ...

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The topics can be from History to Science to knowing who was the first man on earth to who is Albert Einstein. ... How did Joan of Arc change history? ... A peace treaty in 1420 disowned the French prince, Charles of Valois, for certain accusations, and King Henry V was made ruler of both England and France. ... With no military training, Joan convinced the prince Charles of Valois to allow her to lead a French army to the city of Orléans, where it achieved a victory over the English and their French allies, the Burgundians. ... By the time she was officially sanctified in 1920, the M...

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Along with some friends, he discussed the closeness of America and France and how close the two nations were. ... Back in France, Laboulaye was waiting and not sharing the same journey as Bartholdi. ... America would pay for the foundation and pedestal...and France would pay for the statue. ... Its amazing what the Statue of Liberty really means to someone once they know its history. I had no idea the French government ga...

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Primary Documents: Wine in Greece and Rome Around the time 870 BCE King AShurnasirpal II of Assyria gave one of the greatest feasts in history marking the inauguration of his new capital at Nimrud. ... Timeline: Spirits in the Colonial Period 1300 (France)- Arnald of Villanova, a professor at the French medical school of Montpellier, who made the instructions for wine distillation. 1386 (France)- Charles II was struck with fever and paralysis, so they used distillation of wine as a medicine. 1405 (Ireland)- Richard MacRagh died after drinking the water of life to excess. 1478 (Germany)- F...

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HISTORY: in its broadest sense, is the story of humanity's past. ... Medieval works tended to divide into two types of histories. ... Attempts at broader histories of peoples, such as the history of the Goths by Cassiodorus (preserved only in the compendium of Jordanes) and the history of the Franks by Gregory of Tours, were early and had few successors. ... In France, modern academic history began with Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges. ... Macaulay in England, and Jules Michelet in France. ...

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The English, French, and American Revolutions prove this to be correct because the lower classes were rebelling against their reigning monarch and wanted new freedoms, changing history forever. ... The colonists changed history forever. ... The revolution brought Napolean Bonaparte, who brought huge changes to France, and by making later mistakes, make even more enormous changes. The French Revolution fits the definition because the 3rd estate went against King Louis XVI and soon changed the country for the good of it's people. ... The revolutions of America, England, and France...

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The French and English conflict caused many problems with America's political system. ... The French reacted by seizing American ships causing the threat of war to loom large in American minds. ... They immediately renounced all treaties of 1788 with France and began their agenda of creating a large standing army and a Navy Department to deal with the threat of an American-French war. Fear and patriotism were fanned and a strong anti-French sentiment swept the land. ... Are there any instances in 20th century history that compares to the Sedition Act's flagrant disregard of the First...

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First was the Steam engine, invented to power early vehicles including the first true automobile by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot of France in 1769. ... The invention of the internal combustion engine was a very important turning point in American history. ...

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The span between the years 1750 and 1776 were tumultuous times in the history of the American colonies, in which the population of the colonies went from being loyal citizens of the British empire, to having the bond so strained that the colonies broke away violently. The events of this time period, such as the French and Indian war, and increasing tension with Britain regarding its policies regarded the colonies served to help form a sense of unity and identity, although strained at times because of local differences and an unwillingness to cooperate at certain critical junctures. ... Eve...

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Soon after the aforementioned battles the Spanish and French stepped in and gave the Americans a helping hand. ... Because of the help of the French and Spanish the colonists were able to hold off the British and win their independence. Who would have thought that the rebel, hell-raising colonists that founded our country would be able to successfully hold of the British and acquire the assistance of Spain and France? ...

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Their new history touches many Americans and invites each to make a personal interpretation of history. ... The ministers and magistrates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and all the women who wrote history through the Civil War, wrote a form of providential history. ... Progressives saw history as politics, not science. ... They led toward what came to be called "consensus history." ... In 1960s America, the assault on consensus history...

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The period of 1789-1815 in the American history was an era of establishing America as a nation in the world. ... A year before the Whiskey rebellion, war broke out in Europe between France and England. ... However, neither the French nor the British respected the American neutrality, and both started to seize American ships trading with the other side, and in addition, the British impressed American sailors into their navy services. ... And later due Jay's Treaty, which was favorable to the British, the French set their navy to raiding American ships. ... Later, as the raiding on American...

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Even though this topic is considered a part of history there is a growing number of Holocaust deniers. ... Once they were relocated they started a readjustment of history. ... Rassinier was a French concentration camp survivor and a former socialist anarchist. ... One other denier is a French professor Robert Faurisson. ... Other groups like generations who really don't know nothing about this era in world history. ...

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It's also known as one of the most overlooked wars in United States history, often bookended by the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. ... " Great Britain and France had been intermittently at war since 1793. ... British did this by blockading the French coast and in 1807 it passed the Orders in Council, which required neutral countries to obtain a license before trading with France. Napoleon, and the French responded by blockading the British coast, through the Continental System. American ships caught in these blockades were taken for use by both the British and French navy's and ...

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Many people view the Declaration of Independence as mere propaganda developed by the colonies to draw much needed support from European powers such as France during the colonies" separation. ... "[Our country's] birth is unique, not only in the immensity of its later impact on the course of world history and the growth of democracy, but also because so many of the threads in our national history run back through time to come together in one place, in one time, and in one document: the Declaration of Independence (Microsoft Encarta)." ... Moreover, throughout the course of judicial histo...

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(Brinkley, p. 44) During the French and Indian War, the tension between the English and Native Americans began to further develop. Nearly all of the North American tribes sided and fought with the French against the English. ... The Iroquois were hesitant to fight the French for a known fear of them. ... Throughout the history of our nation, Native Americans gave up their land to whites and their "Manifest Destiny." ... I felt after taking this History class I learned an abundance of information about American history, between 1770 to 1877; however, something was missing. ...

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Under President John Adams, rumor of war with France emerged as a previous treaty made between the United States and Britain "Jay's treaty-- outraged France. Aside from the conflict with France, discord was found among the two major political parties of the time, Federalists and Anti-Federalists, or Jeffersonians. ... The Sedition Act proved to be one that would impact history forever. ...

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In his painting "The Burial of Phocion," he depicted a time in history representing civilization in a vast landscape. ... Nicolas Poussin's "The Burial of Phocion," is a 1648 landscape painting from the French Baroque Era. ... Both paintings stay true to the time periods, "The Burial of Phocion" definitely appeals to the French Baroque theme of drastic emotion through the sad realization that even though life comes to an end, the world goes on and society functions as usual. ... Poussin's was noted as the best French Baroque painter and his influence on art was drastic for the next t...

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The French and Indian war took place in America. ... At first the British were frighten of the French who devastated their settlements but they were able to recover after William Pitt was at the command of the operations. Slowly they took control over the war and forced the French out of their colonies up to Quebec were they cornered French soldiers up a rocky embankment. ... It did just that, the movement gained supporters and allies, including France. ... The Declaration of Independence changed American History, even though the text of Declaration in its first years was considered indiff...

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Cooper can envelop this situation convincingly because it is history extending into his own lifetime: during the 1820's and 1830's the United States policy of Removal was continually shifting the Indians to areas west of the Mississippi River. ... With difficulty finding their way through the heavy morning mists and the infinite French, the seven, hotly pursued, finally reach the fort, where Commander Munro recognizes the voice of his daughter Alice and opens a sally-port for them. Therewith Heyward leads a repulse of the engaging French. ... In my opinion, Cooper didn'...

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I always wanted to live in France, away from Turkey and everyone, although speaking french as my native language. When I was living in Turkey, planning to go French High School. I was really obsessed with French language and France, especially Paris, It was me, It was what I was feeling about my future, then after high school I'd leave the country and going college in France. ... I went to my class and took the tested math to history. ... Actually, some of my family lives in Germany, Greece, UK, France and Bulgaria. ...

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In July of 1942, news reports of the killings were aired in London, however, nothing came of it because the reports were in French. ... Finally on June 12, Britain, Holland, Belgium, and France accepted the refugees. ... We as a society, must realize that the Holocaust, as the most infamous and disgraceful time in all history, must therefore be the most highly studied. ...

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