Maximilian Robespierre effectively ruled the nation from 1793-1794. After he was overthrown, a council known as the Directory ruled until 1799, when Napoleon took over. He ruled until 1814, when Louis' brother took the throne.
Gibbons v. Ogden,was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation. The case was argued by some of America's most admired and capable attorneys at the time. Exiled Irish patriot Thomas Addis Emmet and Thomas J. Oakley argued for Ogden, while U.S. Attorney General William Wirt and Daniel Webster argued for Gibbons.
Paul Revere used his profession as a mean of protest in the 1760s by creating engravings to promote colonial protests.
