When the French King Louis Philippe—installed ... The better and more accurate term for 1848 is “defeat.” The Revolutions of 1848 were murdered: put down deliberately with overwhelming ...

While the motto of the French revolution was “liberty ... It was then reinstated by Napoleon in 1802 and abolished again in 1848. Less well known than the storming of the Bastille, are the ...

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 ...

This is the story of the 1848 European revolutions, one of the most dramatic and significant moments in the history of the continent. Hungry workers and peasants joined forces with liberals and ...