Conquer Club

--------- Happy Bastille Day 2024 A.D. ...
--------- Pretty much the Start of The French Revolution...On July 14, 1789 A.D...The Bastille (Now a Prison)...Was Stormed.... Pretty much kicking off The French Revolution...
--------- FRANCE....
--------- Let's see...Is Celebrating with cake popular on Bastille Day...Kinda France's Birthday... Birthday cake...Let Them eat cake... ... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)...

It's remarkable how much attention it gets considering the Revolution was such an abject failure at the time.
I suppose it is now just another example of culturally-entrenched symbolism.
Ten years later, Napoleon would begin his rule, and five years after that he would declare himself Emperor.
The first 70 years of the 19th century would continue with a long list of royal rulers, both Bonaparte and Bourbon.

Votanic wrote:It's remarkable how much attention it gets considering the Revolution was such an abject failure at the time.
I suppose it is now just another example of culturally-entrenched symbolism.
Ten years later, Napoleon would begin his rule, and five years after that he would declare himself Emperor.
The first 70 years of the 19th century would continue with a long list of royal rulers, both Bonaparte and Bourbon.

-------France is USA's oldest Ally ... December 7th(people think Pearl Harbor is big that day),1777 A.D...
------- Without France The USA isn't free from Great Britain...But France helped The USA...So years later...The USA could save France's ass in WW1 and WW2...Only to have The French get America stuck in The Vietnam War...Allies Forever...
------- Napoleon's hero was George Washington...Yet he never asked Lafayette to join him...Being that Lafayette was one of Washington's close Generals...Lafayette didn't fight for anyone when he returned to France...... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)...

ConfederateSS wrote:

Votanic wrote:It's remarkable how much attention it gets considering the Revolution was such an abject failure at the time.
I suppose it is now just another example of culturally-entrenched symbolism.
Ten years later, Napoleon would begin his rule, and five years after that he would declare himself Emperor.
The first 70 years of the 19th century would continue with a long list of royal rulers, both Bonaparte and Bourbon.

-------France is USA's oldest Ally ... December 7th(people think Pearl Harbor is big that day),1777 A.D...
------- Without France The USA isn't free from Great Britain...But France helped The USA...So years later...The USA could save France's ass in WW1 and WW2...Only to have The French get America stuck in The Vietnam War...Allies Forever...
------- Napoleon's hero was George Washington...Yet he never asked Lafayette to join him...Being that Lafayette was one of Washington's close Generals...Lafayette didn't fight for anyone when he returned to France...... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)...

Uh, Confed, check your dates.
It was actually the Ancien Régime that gave the still-protoplasmic U.S.A. its revolutionary boost, ...ironically enough.

--------I had the 7's right on the money...
-------- After the British surrender at Saratoga....French Foreign Minister....Charles Gorvier...Count of Vergenness...After hearing Franklin might make peace with Britain... Didn't want to wait on Spain...Officially Recognized The United States of America as a country... Offered An Official Alliance with the United States of America on December 17th, 1777 A.D...Only 10 days off.... Pearl Harbor back on top on the 7th... ... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... ...