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1792
 
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A French revolutionary army defeats the Austrians and Prussians at Valmy, and thus saves Paris from attack     
1792
 
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After their success at Valmy, French republican armies overrun much of the Austrian Netherlands      
1792
 
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The National Convention abolishes royalty in France and establishes the first republic       
1793
 
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Louis XVI is guillotined after a majority of just one in the national Convention has voted for death without delay       
1793
 
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Britain joins other European nations in war against France, mainly in naval engagements in the West Indies and Atlantic      
1793
 
  
Civil war breaks out in Corsica and Napoleon's family flees to France     
1793
 
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France becomes the first nation to attempt national conscription, calling up bachelors between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five      
1793
 
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Napoleon is appointed commander of French republican forces besieging royalists, supported by an Anglo-Spanish fleet, in Toulon        
1793
 
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The Terror begins in republican France, with executions rising to more than 3000 in December      
1793
 
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Napoleon's soldiers capture Toulon and his artillery fire forces the Anglo-Spanish fleet to withdraw from the harbour