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Napoleon Bonaparte was born on this island in the Mediterranean in 1769.
What is Corsica?
Napoleon's final battle in Belgium in 1815 when he ultimately lost to the British under Wellington and Prussians under Blucher.
What is Waterloo?
Napoleon sold this territory to the United States in 1803 for $15 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the Revolution.
What is the guillotine?
Period of the French Revolution in 1793-1794 when public executions increased due to revolutionary fervor. Trials took place in the morning, death in the afternoon.
What was the Reign of Terror?
Man known as the "Incorruptible."
Who was Maximillien Robespierre?
Napoleon's troops discovered this famous ancient artifact in Egypt in 1798.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Napoleon's masterpiece in 1805, defeating three different empires--Austria, Russia, and Prussia.
What is Austerlitz?
Napoleon's strategy to isolate Britain and promote his mastery over Europe.
What is the Continental System?
Under this document all men were considered truly equal.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
The French Revolution began on July 14, 1789, with the storming of this prison in Paris.
What is the Bastille?
What group issued the “Declaration of the Rights of Man”?
What was the National Assembly?
Napoleon's first wife who was unsuccessful in providing him an heir. He later divorced her.
Who was Josephine?
Napoleon's big blunder in 1812, when he invaded this vast empire to the east.
What is Russia?
Napoleon's second wife from Austria who did provide him with a son.
Who is Marie Louise?
The three colors of the French flag represent blue and red for Paris and white for this house.
What is Bourbon?
French revolutionary leader who stormed the Bastille but was later guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror.
Who is Danton?
Radical Jacobin journalist known as "the Friend of the People."
Who was Jean Paul Marat?
Book whose purpose was to reform the French legal code to reflect the spirit of the French Revolution.
What is the Code Napoleon (Napoleonic Code)?
Napoleon was defeated by this British admiral both at the Nile and at Trafalgar.
Who is Lord (Horatio) Nelson?
Napoleon and Josephine were crowned emperor & empress in this famous cathedral in 1804.
What is Notre Dame?
Name of the middle class, including merchants, industrialist, and professional people.
What is the Bourgeoise?
Name of working class men and women who made the revolution more radical. (Meaning "without breeches" in French)
Who are the sans-culotte?
Age of applying reason to the human and natural worlds, which then fueled democratic revolutions.
What is the Enlightenment?
Napoleon was finally exiled to this remote British territory in the South Atlantic.
What is St. Helena?
Napoleon defeated the Prussians at this battle in 1806 and later entered Berlin.
What is Jena?
This island nation in the Caribbean became independent from France in 1804.
What is Haiti?
Name of powerful group, led by Robespierre, set up to defeat enemies of the Revolution.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
Name of the Conservative group who wanted a limited monarchy and few changes.
Who were the Girondins?
Pledge did the Third Estate made, vowing not to disband until a constitution was established for France.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?