MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Robespierre was executed by guillotine.
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French women marched all the way to Versailles.
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A mob stormed a prison looking for gunpowder
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All of the above are true.
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Detailed explanation-1: -During the unrest of 1789, on July 14 a mob approached the Bastille to demand the arms and ammunition stored there, and, when the forces guarding the structure resisted, the attackers captured the prison and released the seven prisoners held there.
Detailed explanation-2: -On 14 July 1789, a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy’s dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed.
Detailed explanation-3: -The storming of the Bastille took place because the French rebels wanted to get their hands on the 250 barrels of gunpowder that had been transferred there a couple days previously. The rebels wanted to arm themselves and this was the way that they did it. The attack on the Bastille took place on July 14, 1789.
Detailed explanation-4: -Why did they storm the Bastille? Rising bread prices, the concentration of foreign soldiers around Paris, and counter-revolutionary measures by the king, such as the dismissal of Jacques Necker, caused the people of Paris to riot. Searching for weapons and gunpowder led the mob to the Bastille.