Between 1775 and 1848 one question crossed the Atlantic in both directions: by what right is anyone governed? Thirteen colonies answered with a republic; France answered with a revolution that swallowed Europe; half a million enslaved people in Saint-Domingue answered more completely than anyone — and were made to pay for it the longest. Every red territory on this map is a wager that the answer is “only by consent.”
Twelve chapters follow the age from Lexington to the barricades of 1848 — through Valmy, Vertières, Austerlitz, Boyacá and Waterloo — with fronts, arrows and turning points drawn where they happened. Scrub the timeline to watch empires dissolve and kings return; click any territory for its dossier; then sit the Field Exam and see what rank the age assigns you.
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