The American Revolution was a defining moment in history ... To safeguard this strategic location, the French constructed Fort Duquesne, a military symbol denoting their colonial intentions.

Lavoisier had assumed control of France’s national gunpowder production. Considered the founder of the Chemical Revolution, ...

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 ...

Enter the emperor Napoleon from stage right. France did not have republican government again until 1871. Needless to say, the American Revolution fared much better. Americans had many advantages ...

If not for the financial support of France and later Spain, the nascent rebellion likely would have been crushed in its infancy for lack of hard currency. In dramatic detail, Ferling, an acclaimed ...

Paul Revere’s father was a French immigrant ... breathe new life into the ideas at the heart of the American Revolution. Perhaps a deeper remembrance of 1775 and 1776 can restore some of ...

As we approach the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and the Declaration ... Years’ War — what was once referred to as the French and Indian War and what scholars often refer ...

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 ...