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| A French congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war, established by the Consitution of 1791 |
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| a person who leaves their native country for political reasons, like the nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings of the French Revolution |
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| in the French Revolution, a radical group made up of Parisian wage-earners and small shop keepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices, and an end to food shortages |
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| Members of a radical political organization involved in the governmental changes in September 1792 |
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| a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution |
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| A Jacobin leader, he and his supporters set out to build a "republic of virtue" by wiping out every trace of France's past. He became the leader of the Committe of Public Safety. |
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| the period, from mid-1793 to mid-1794, when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France virtually as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed. |
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| Was born in 1769 on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. In October 1795 Napoleon and his gunners greeted thousands of royalist rebels with a cannonade when they marched on the National Convention. He became the hero of the hour. In 1796 the Directory appointed Napoleon Commander of French forces in Italy. In 1804 he crowned himself emperor, and began to create a vast European empire. In 1815 he was defeated near the village of Waterloo by the British Army led by the Duke of Wellington. |
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| a sudden seizure of politial power in a nation |
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| a direct vote in which a country's people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal |
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| a government-run public school in France |
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| a formal agreement - especially one between the pope and the government, dealing with the control of Church affairs |
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| a comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon |
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| an 1805 naval battle in which Napoleon's forces were defeated by a British fleet under the command of Horatio Nelson |
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| the use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region |
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| Napoleon's policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe, intended to destroy Great Britain's economy |
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| a member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country |
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| a conflict, lasting from 1808 to 1813, in which Spanish rebels, with the aid of British forces, fought to drive Napoleon's French troops out of Spain |
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| the practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land |
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| Village where the British army prepared the battle where Napolean was defeated, which ended his last bid for power. |
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| the brief period during 1815 when Napoleon made his last bid for power, deposing the French king (Louis XVIII) and again becoming emperor of France, but was defeated near Waterloo by the british army |
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