The Age of Revolution

There was a time in our worlds history when rebellion swept the lands of Europe. America's revolution against England inspired many other conflicts through the next seventy years. Soon after the United States gained its freedom from England in 1783, France experienced a revolution of their own. It became one of the bloodiest and most brutal conflicts to have come to past. Witnesses on the streets of Paris write of blood rushing through the sewer systems of the city. This span of time will come to be known as the Reign of Terror, where around 17,000 citizens will lose their head to the guillotine, a viscous and brutal machine of execution at the time. Strangely enough, this instrument of death was thought to have been a more civil and clean death. Through all the turmoil the king of France, Louis XVI, will be imprisoned and executed, as well as an estimate of nearly 40,000 citizens. As the revolution dragged on, Marie Antoinette, Queen of France will also lose her head in what can be described as one of the bloodiest conflicts in history.