Chapter 18: The French Revolution and Napoleon

Bastille

Bastille

On July 14, a mob of Parisians stormed the ________, an armory and prison in Paris, and dismantled it, brick by brick.

Liberty

________ was replaced by a despotism that grew increasingly arbitrary, in spite of protests by such citizens as the prominent writer Anne- Louise- Germaine de Staël.

Bourgeoisie

The ________, or middle class, was another part of the Third Estate.

Republics army

The ________ was the largest ever seen in European history.

Revolutionary armies

________ were set up to bring rebellious cities back under the control of the National Convention.

Waterloo

At ________ in Belgium on June 18, 1815, Napoleon met a combined British and Prussian army under the Duke of Wellington and suffered a bloody defeat.

Dependent states

________ were kingdoms under the rule of Napoleons relatives.

French Empire

The ________ was the inner core of the Grand Empire.

Napoleon Bonaparte

________ dominated French and European history from 1799 to 1815.

French Revolution

The year 1789 witnessed two far- reaching events: the beginning of a new United States of America and the beginning of the ________.

Napoleon

When ________ became consul in 1799, France was at war with a European coalition of Russia, Great Britain, and Austria.

Napoleon

________ also developed a powerful, centralized administrative machine.

Napoleon

________ achieved a peace treaty in 1802, but it did not last long.