The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

I can barely remember what the American Revolution was about ... Old State House where Crispus took one for the team. The French Revolution, between 1889 and 1899, I remember even less about.

The American Revolution was a defining moment in history ... To safeguard this strategic location, the French constructed Fort Duquesne, a military symbol denoting their colonial intentions.

For a lot of people, mention of the French Revolution conjures up images of wealthy nobles being led to the guillotine. Thanks to countless movies, books and half-remembered history lessons ...

Reading the great Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, however, helped me to appreciate the differences between the American War of Independence and the French Revolution. In contemporary ...

The French grappled with this issue in the wake of revolution in 1789 as they worked ... raw power is dangerously seductive, and future American presidents will pay little price for criminal ...

DuVal explains. “France’s help for the United States has long been part of Americans’ knowledge of the American Revolution, but the French king decided to enter the war because of France’s ...

assisted by French troops led by General Rochambeau, cornered British General Cornwallis, leading to his surrender and effectively ending the American Revolution. (Here are 33 historic American ...

We are in a Jacobin Revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 ... result agendas that otherwise do not earn majority support. The American people want affordable power and fuel and energy autonomy.