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 ...

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 ...

The French basketball revolution was on ... including a Dallas-based American named Tim Martin. The French system seems to be working. The national team – known as Les Bleus – has earned ...

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 ...