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an armed action by the royalists in Paris from Oct. 3 to Oct. 5(11-13 Vendémiaire), 1795. The royalists, stirred up after the counterrevolutionary Thermidorian Reaction (July 1794), strove to restore the monarchy in France. The pretext for the Vendémiaire revolt was the adoption by the Thermidor Convention on Aug. 22, 1795, of the French Constitution of the Year III, which deprived the ...

Born Jan. 17, 1732, in Wołczyn; died Feb. 12, 1798, in St. Petersburg. Last king of Poland, who reigned from 1764 to 1795.From 1757 to 1762, Poniatowski served as the envoy of Poland and Saxony to Russia. He was elected king with the support of Catherine II and the Prussian king Frederick II. His policies followed those of Russia. Poniatowski abdicated on Nov. 25, 1795, and spent the last years ...

French Directoire(1795–99) Government set up during the French Revolution by the Constitution of 1795. Legislative power was placed in the Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Ancients, while executive power was placed in a five-member Directory. Though the Directors nominally inherited many of the powers of the Committee of Public Safety, they had no funds to finance their projects or ...

Name for the Netherlands in the years (1795–1806) following conquest by the French during the French Revolutionary Wars. The United Provinces of the Netherlands were reconstituted as the Batavian Republic in 1795 and remained under French occupation and tutelage. In 1801, Napoleon imposed a new constitution on the republic, which was financially drained by French requisitions, and in ...

... born July 17, 1745, Salem, Mass.—died Jan. 29, 1829, Salem, Mass., U.S.) U.S. Politician. He joined the militia in 1766 and served in the American Revolution under George Washington, becoming adjutant general (1777–78) and quartermaster general (1780–85). He later served as U.S. Postmaster general (1791–95), secretary of war (1795), and secretary ...