66.2 French Revolution of July 1830, and Greek War of Independence

A History of Europe, Key Battles

Carl Rylett

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🗓️ 15 April 2022

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King Charles X of France is overthrown and replaced by his cousin Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans.

Meanwhile a 10 month long insurrection in Poland is crushed by the Russians. In the retribution which followed, eighty-thousand Poles are dragged off in chains to Siberia.

The year 1830 also witnessed the formal independence of Greece from the Ottoman Empire after a war which had begun nine years before.

And the Industrial Revolution gathers steam across western Europe

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to a history of Europe Key Battles podcast, The Revolution of 1848, part two of four.
1:21.6	Thank you. Two of Four. The It was the 2nd of March 1830 in Paris in a national elected assembly, the Chamber of Deputies. Now in his 70s, Charles had grown up before the French Revolution of 1789.
1:30.1	Extremely conservative in nature, he was determined to reign as an absolute monarch,
1:35.3	and refused to accept any limitation on his power.
1:39.4	However, he had lost his parliamentary majority and now confronted the chamber to try and restore his authority.
1:47.3	Addressing the assembled deputies, he declared that if they opposed him, he would take the steps necessary to restore public order.
1:56.3	So agitated was he that in wavering his arms about, he knocked off his own hat, which rolled across
2:01.9	the floor and landed at the feet of his cousin Louis Philippe, Duke of Orleans, who had acquired a reputation
2:08.3	as a liberal. The symbolism was not lost on those present. When a deputies refused to fall into
2:16.6	line, Charles held fresh elections, but these produced
2:20.3	a stunning victory for the Liberals. In the meantime, the King declared war on Algeria,
2:26.3	nominally a part of the Ottoman Empire. The invasion was partly to root out Barbary pirates
2:33.3	who attacked the southern coasts of France. It was partly to root out Barbary pirates who attacked the southern coasts of France.
2:37.3	It was partly to secure part of the northern coast of Africa, in anticipation that it would be occupied by another European power.
2:46.3	But the principal reason was to boost Charles' prestige with a show of military strength.
2:53.0	In just three weeks, a French military force succeeded in occupying Algeria
2:57.5	and in laying the foundations there for a new colonial empire.
3:03.2	News of the success emboldened Charles into taking action against his internal opponents.
3:11.5	On the 25th of July, the King dissolved the Chamber of Deputies, reducing the electorate
3:17.0	to the richest 25% of existing voters. He also imposed strict official censorship.
3:28.7	These actions provoked an uprising in the streets of Paris,
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