MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Storming of Bastille
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Defeat of napoleon at Waterloo
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Tennis Court Oath
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -On July 14, 1789, fears that King Louis XVI was about to arrest France’s newly constituted National Assembly led a crowd of Parisians to successfully besiege the Bastille, an old fortress that had been used since 1659 as a state prison.
Detailed explanation-2: -At the time, the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. The prison contained only seven inmates at the time of its storming, but was seen by the revolutionaries as a symbol of the monarchy’s abuse of power; its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Storming of the Bastille On the morning of July 14, the people of Paris seized weapons from the armoury at the Invalides and marched in the direction of an ancient Royal fortress, the Bastille. After a bloody round of firing, the crowd broke into the Bastille and released the handful of prisoners held there.