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 ...

In fact, France’s support for the revolutionaries in the American War of Independence had a far greater impact ... from the French commoners against the monarchy, but the French Revolution ...

The French Revolution would have an enormous impact in Ireland and on Belfast in particular. The revolution sent shockwaves across the monarchies and governments of Europe. They were determined ...