How Did Robespierre Contribute To Power

In the early months of the war a jacobin leader Maximillien Robespierre slowly gained power. He had many supporters who helped him set out to build “republic of virtue” by wiping out all of Frances past. They then changed the way the calendar was, dividing it into 12 months of 30 days and renaming each month. Since the radicles considered religion old-fashioned and dangerous they didn't include Sundays on the calendar. They closed all the churches in Paris and cities and towns in France soon followed and did the same thing. In July of 1793 he became the leader of the Committee of Public Safety. He ruled as a dictator for about the next year and this ruling became known as the Reign of Terror. The whole point of the Committee of Public Safety was to protect the revolution from its enemies but with Robespierre as leader the people often had these enemies. He said that this use of terror enabled french citizens to remain true to the ideas of the revolution. The people who challenged his leadership the most where radicals. In 1793 and 1794 many of them received death sentences. On July 28, 1795 Robespierre was sent to

He went to Italy and won a series of remarkable victories. The next thing he did was he led an expedition to Egypt in an attempt to disrupt British trade with India. His army got pinned down and defeated in Egypt. His story stayed out of the newspaper so he was still a big hero back in France. Napoleon took action in 1799 to try and seize political power. A group of three counsels was established, Napoleon being the first one. He quickly became a dictator. In 1799 Russia, Britain, and Austria joined forces to try and get Napoleon to lose his power. All nations signed peace agreements with France. By 1802 Europe was at peace for the first time in 10 years. After the signing Napoleon put all his focus trying to restore