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Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts, also known as the Coercive Acts, were five laws passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1774 to punish the Thirteen Colonies of British North America for the Boston Tea Party. Though the acts primarily targeted...
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Committee of Public Safety
In the French Revolution (1789-1799), the Committee of Public Safety (French: Comité De Salut Public) was a political body created to oversee the defense of the French Republic from foreign and domestic enemies. To achieve this goal, the...
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Corpse of Lakota Chief Spotted Elk After Wounded Knee Massacre
The dead body of Lakota Sioux Chief Spotted Elk (also known as Big Foot, l. 1826-1890) lies in the snow after the Wounded Knee Massacre of 29 December 1890.
US National Archives and Records Administration.
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Lakota Sioux Leader Sitting Bull, 1885
Lakota Sioux holy man and leader, Sitting Bull, in 1885.
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
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Chief Gall of the Lakota Sioux in 1881
Lakota Sioux War Chief Gall, photographed by David Francis Barry at Fort Buford, North Dakota, 1881.
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
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Fort Laramie Treaty 1868
General William T. Sherman and Commissioners in Council with Sioux Chiefs at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, signing the Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868, ending Red Cloud's War. Native Americans are seated on the ground, commissioners on chairs. Seated...
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Committee of Public Safety Emblem, 1794
Committee of Public Safety emblem, 1794. Designed by Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne and Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois.
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Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror, or simply the Terror (la Terreur), was a climactic period of state-sanctioned violence during the French Revolution (1789-99), which saw the public executions and mass killings of thousands of counter-revolutionary 'suspects'...
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Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just
Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just (1767-1794) was a prominent figure of the French Revolution (1789-1799). After his election to the National Convention in September 1792, he led the push for the execution of King Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792...
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Drownings at Nantes
The Drownings at Nantes were a series of mass killings that took place in Nantes, France from November 1793 to February 1794 during the Reign of Terror. Overseen by Jean-Baptiste Carrier, the representative-on-mission from Paris, thousands...