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 ...

who worked with the American Thomas Jefferson to draft The Declaration of the Rights of Man. While the motto of the French revolution was “liberty, equality, fraternity”, in practice this did ...

Saint-Domingue's slave revolution posed delicate problems for both England ... were often populated with former slaves and they regularly captured North American ships. French privateering led to a ...

In their modern forms they came about as a result of two events, the American Revolution in 1776 and the French Revolution in 1789. The French Revolution would have an enormous impact in Ireland ...