The British army, lead by the Duke of Willington, was ready to have battle in Waterloo in Belgium. The Prussian's army joined the British and defeated Napoleon.
Miguel Hidalgo was priest in small village of Dolores. He was poor but well-educated and believed in Enlightenment ideas. He issued a call for rebellion against Spanish known as “grito de Dolores” (the cry of Dolores), and marches Indian and mestizo followers into Mexico City, uprising alarms Spanish, army defeats Hidalgo..
There was conflict in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. It was the only succesful slave rebellion. The leader of the rebellion was names Toussaint L'Ouverture who was a self-educated former domestic slave.
In 1804 Napoleon decided to make himself emperor with the French voters support. On December 2nd, the pope was suppose to crown Napoleon, but instead he took the crown from the pope and crowned himself to show he had the most power.
Napolean was known as a coup from the phrease coup d'etat, which means "blow to the state." He quickly became a leader in France. There was a plebiscite and Napoleon won all real power at first consul.
The American Revelution inspired the growing of French people who sought reform in their own country. The Ferech saw the USA's new government as a fulfillment of Enlightenment ideals. Enconomic and social inequalities in the old regine contributed to cuasing the French Revelution.
In 1776, in Pennsylvania, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, The Decleration proclaims the independence of the of the USA from Great Britain and their king.
In "On the Spirit of Laws," Montesquieu proposed that seperation of powers would keep any group or individual from gaining total control of the government.
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