In fact, France’s support for the revolutionaries in the American War ... but the French Revolution was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start. In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting ...

Having dethroned Louis XVI in 1792 ... George Rogers Clark, the disgruntled former frontier hero of the American Revolution (and the older brother of William Clark of “Lewis and Clark ...

The newly created Legislative Assembly wanted to spread the revolution across Europe. In April 1792, France declared war on Austria. The war went badly, and Louis XVI was blamed. Accused of ...

recognizing American independence. A decade later, in January 1793, during a significantly different revolution in France ...