In order for such a revolution to have taken place, the key triggering motives of misery, social ambition and ideas played a great role. ... The Bourgeoisie were driven by social ambition. ... Life to a man of the lower class, to an artisan, or workman, subsisting on the labor of his own hands, is evidently precarious; he obtains simply enough to keep him from starvation and he does not always get that . ... They wanted more mobility within the caste system and had the ambition to achieve it. ...

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After all, a well-known and respected commander, Napoleon Bonaparte, once said, "Great ambition is the passion of a great character. ... The code was based on the principles of equality of everyone before the law, an end to feudal rights and privileges, security of property, marriage as a civil act as opposed to religious, and the freedom to choose one's own profession. ... An additional achievement was his rise in political and military power to fulfil his ambition of imperial expansion. ...

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America also upset because of Britain's attempt and blackmail to stop their trades with France, acted on impulsive ambition of the politicians like Calhan, Clay and others to turn the popular prejudice against Great Britain to their own political advantage. ... What won the politicians to the idea of an anti-British war were the prizes that a victory would bring: 1) Bringing Canada into the union, long an ambition of the northeastern elite. 2) Forcing the Indians in the west, who had formed a separate peace with the British, to submit to American authorities that wanted to expand the fr...

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Each revolution had a different approach to enlightened philosophy, political goals, and economic ambitions. ... Ultimately Robespierre becomes greedy and the super power by killing all of his rivals and leads himself to his own death where he meets Louis XVI. ... This created civil unrest and food shortages just like in the second stage but soon a man with toughness and ambition will arise. ...

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