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The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848

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The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848 told in 12 chapters on an interactive situation map, with 18 dated maps and 45 battles, turning points and sites of memory, each drawn where it happened. This page is the index: every chapter, map and place as its own page.

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The chapters

Causes of the American Revolution
CHAPTER 1 · APR 1775
American Revolutionary War
CHAPTER 2 · SEP 1783
French Revolution
CHAPTER 3 · JUL 1789
Reign of Terror
CHAPTER 4 · AUG 1793
Haitian Revolution
CHAPTER 5 · JAN 1804
Rise of Napoleon
CHAPTER 6 · JUL 1807
Peninsular War
CHAPTER 7 · JUN 1810
Napoleon’s invasion of Russia
CHAPTER 8 · SEP 1812
Fall of Napoleon
CHAPTER 9 · JUN 1815
Latin American wars of independence
CHAPTER 10 · DEC 1824
Age of Metternich
CHAPTER 11 · AUG 1830
Revolutions of 1848
CHAPTER 12 · MAR 1848

Age of Revolutions maps by year

APR 1775SEP 1783AUG 1795JAN 1804MAY 1810AUG 1819SEP 1822DEC 1824JUL 1789FEB 1793OCT 1797JUL 1807JUN 1810SEP 1812JUN 1815SEP 1823AUG 1830MAR 1848

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Battles, events and sites of memory

✕ Battle of Austerlitz✕ Battle of Ayacucho✕ Battle of Bailén✕ Battle of Borodino✕ Battle of Boyacá✕ Battle of Carabobo✕ Battle of Jena–Auerstedt✕ Battle of Leipzig✕ Battle of Navarino✕ Battle of Valmy✕ Battle of Vertières✕ Battle of Waterloo✕ Battle of the Berezina✕ Battles of Lexington and Concord✕ Battles of Saratoga● Bois Caïman ceremony● Boston Tea Party◆ Cap-Français● Carlsbad Decrees◆ Chios massacre● Congress of Vienna● Coup of 18 Brumaire● Cry of Dolores● Cry of Ipiranga◆ Dos de Mayo Uprising● February Revolution in Paris● Fire of Moscow✕ Five Days of Milan● Flight to Varennes● Haiti declares independence● Hungarian April Laws● July Revolution● Lines of Torres Vedras● March Revolution in Berlin✕ Napoleon’s campaign in Egypt◆ Peterloo Massacre◆ Potosí silver mines● Prague uprising✕ Siege of Toulon✕ Siege of Yorktown● Storming of the Bastille● Treaties of Tilsit● Vienna uprising◆ War in the Vendée● Women’s March on Versailles

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