The French Revolution

6. Napoleon learns he isn't as good on water as he is on land. This is a battle
7. A great amorphous enemy of Napoleon's empire, usually observed around July 4th here
8. The clergy, nobility, and then the common people
12. What Louis XVI had to call (for the first time in quite a while) amidst financial crisis
14. Nobody wants another revolution, so let us all 3 be best buds!
17. A prison, stormed on July 14th for gunpowder
18. No - she never said anything about cake. She was just an overspending Hapsburg
19. There were no singers here, but there was a general notion of helping others in distress
20. A very good, sharp reason not to mess with the Revolution

1. What a bully, that Napoleon - those French council members didn't deserve such a rude greeting
2. Violent radical commoners. This is two French words
3. You're not the real king - he is! Get him back on that throne!
4. Pack it up, pack it in, I wouldn't mess with a radical ______ (like Marat or Robespierre!)
5. It was a very weird place to make socks, but these women still did it
9. This type of Spanish fighter wasn't too organized, but it gave Napoleon a beating in Spain
10. Conspiracies and panic arose - why did you put the army there, Louis?!
11. The French tried putting one of these around Britain, but smugglers still got through
13. A movement that made up new ideas about society
15. France's archaic system with estates
16. Run, French, run! (especially those nobles). This is a French word