USA HISTORY

MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country
A
Guerilla
B
Scorched-earth policy
C
Battle of Trafalgar
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -guerrillas – members of loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying their own country. Napoleon lost 300, 000 soldiers.

Detailed explanation-2: -They were the principal conservative political party in France at the time and opposed the radical course of the revolution, leading to the Reign of Terror. Generally, historians divide the Convention into the left-wing Jacobin Montagnards, the centrist The Plain and the right-wing Girondins.

Detailed explanation-3: -[French, from Jacobin Dominican; from the group’s founding in the Dominican convent in Paris] : a member of an extremist or radical political group. especially : a member of such a group advocating egalitarian democracy and engaging in terrorist activities during the French Revolution of 1789.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Jacobin Club was formed by Maximilian Robespierre. One of the influential political clubs that formed by Maximilian Robespierre during the French revolution was the Jacobins club. They were considered to be the radical revolutionaries who planned the rise of the French revolution and the downfall of the King.

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