White Terror
What White Terror means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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A violent backlash where conservative gangs, like the Companies of the Sun, murdered former Jacobins.
A royalist backlash in the south-east where gangs killed Jacobins and republicans.
Topics that use White Terror
- 2H France in Revolution, 1774–1815 (A-level only) – 1795–1815 The Directory and Napoleon's rise to power, 1795–1799 (AQA A-Level)
- From the Directory to Brumaire, 1795–99 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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