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Age of Revolution

  • Industrial RevolutionIn 1799, French envoy Louis-Guillaume Otto announced that France had entered the race to industrialise. This marked the earliest recorded use of the phrase…
  • Spanish American wars of independenceIn 1767, the Spanish Crown expelled the Society of Jesus from its American territories. This action removed a powerful institution that had long served as a…
  • War of the Sixth CoalitionIn June 1812, Napoleon crossed the Neman river with an army of 650,000 men. Roughly half were French soldiers, while the rest came from allied or subject…