The Marquis de Lafayette eventually helped secure his freedom. A statue to James Armistead Lafayette will be dedicated this ...

He convened the Estates-General, made up of the Roman Catholic ... of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants ...

Lafayette arrived by boat to cannon and musket fire. He might have been the most famous person in America. Beaufort ...

History reenactor Michael Halbert brought Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette to life as part of a 24-state tour that ...

but the French Revolution was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start. In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, to try and find a solution to France’s financial problems.

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all ... joined the forces of the French Republic as a brigadier general, and turned his troops against Spain. In 1797 Toussaint was made commander ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (WAVY) — The newly remodeled Rochambeau Roadside Inn has officially opened its doors. Located at the entrance to historic Colonial Williamsburg, the inn features modern ...

Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals Teresa Nowakowski Some of the gems may have featured ...

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 ...