On June 20, 1791, Louis and his family ... Years later Thomas Jefferson would admit that his own support for the French Revolution was misguided: "Your prophecies," he wrote to Adams, ...

The French Revolution would be led by shopkeepers ... On the night of the 21st June 1791, the royal family sneaked away from Paris disguised – not very well – as servants, and they fled ...

During that earlier conflict, several hundred soldiers from the French island colony of Saint-Domingue ... legislation and greater access to political rights. Then, in August 1791, a massive slave ...

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe into a war, but also touched off slave uprisings in the Caribbean. On Saint Domingue, the free people of color began the chain of ...

Professor Charles Forsdick tells the story of Toussaint Louverture, who led Haiti’s successful and highly adaptive slave ...

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 ...