We often tend to forget that North America was not always Anglo- Saxon. It was even, with India, the first French colonial empire, from Quebec to New Orleans. From the beginning of the 16th century, courageous and intrepid explorers surveyed the new world, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the s
The history of the 20th century had in the Revolution Russian of 1917 one of its main events. The construction of the Soviet state by members of the Bolshevik party resulted in a change in the forms of economic development seen up to that moment. The modernization of Russian society occurred differe
The Battle of Rivoli took place on January 14 and 15, 1797 in surroundings of Rivoli Veronese in northern Italy, between the French army and the Austrian army. It is part of the series of battles fought during the siege of Mantua, led by the army of Italy of the French general Bonaparte and the Aust
France in the 1680s was the largest and most powerful European country. He had the largest army. Under the Sun King Louis XIV France gained territory and twice defeated the Dutch. Louis expansionist policy had frightened Europe. Especially after the restoration of the Dutch William of Orange to the