french revolution

Battle of saratoga

• sep-oct 1777
• first colonial victory
• 3,500 british dead/captured
• gives colonials contr. of Noth
• drives english south

battle of Cowpens

• Jan 1781
• Cornwallis:lost high ground
• Tarieton charges w/o order
• "Tarieton's Quarter"= no mercy
• Drove British to seashore

Battle of Yorktown

• Yorktown-valley: impossible to defend
• Cornwallis settles Y.T./ tells no Brits
• Henry Knox places cannons on hill
• French navy attck. from seashore
• Corn. sends Benedict Arnold surrender

estates general

• 1: cleregy 2: upper/midclass 3:poor
• 1 + 2 pay little tax, 3 pays mahority taxes
• 1+ 2 team against 3
• votes always 2:1

Committee of Public safety

• 2 groups: Jacobins & Girondists
• become very powerful
• originally 25 members
• 12 actually make decisions

Louisiana Purchase

• Napoleon rules Louisiana ---> Mississippi R.
• Jefferson sends Monroe+ Livingston
• Jefferson goes against congress
• buys all Louisiana instead New Orleans
• gives US control of Mississippi R.

Napoleonic code

• "fix law"
• basis for all modern law
• seperates criminal law and civil law