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3 giorni fa · France - Revolution, 1830, Monarchy: The July Revolution was a monument to the ineptitude of Charles X and his advisers. At the outset, few of the king’s critics imagined it possible to overthrow the regime; they hoped merely to get rid of Polignac.
5 giorni fa · Storming of the Bastille, iconic conflict of the French Revolution. On July 14, 1789, fears that King Louis XVI was about to arrest France’s newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully besiege the Bastille, an old fortress that had been used since 1659 as a state.
5 giorni fa · The reign of Louis Philippe is known as the July Monarchy and was dominated by wealthy industrialists and bankers. During the period 1840–1848, he followed conservative policies, especially under the influence of French statesman François Guizot.
3 giorni fa · On 20 July the Regia Marina was defeated in the Battle of Lissa. The following day, Garibaldi's volunteers defeated an Austrian force in the Battle of Bezzecca, and moved toward Trento. Meanwhile, Prussian Minister President Otto von Bismarck saw that
3 giorni fa · Following the ascent of Louis-Philippe I to the throne in the aftermath of the July Revolution of 1830, Talleyrand reluctantly agreed to become ambassador to the United Kingdom, a post he held from 1830 to 1834. In this role, he strove to reinforce the legitimacy of Louis-Philippe's regime.
3 giorni fa · The violence and drama of the French Revolution was noted across Europe. Across the English Channel in particular, there was a strong sense of the "excesses" of violence.
2 giorni fa · The July Revolution, although subjected to vilification since, saw the cessation of the seven-decade foreign occupation of Egypt and the reclamation of usurped rights and full sovereignty through the nationalisation of the Suez Canal.
