THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
NAPOLEONIC WARS
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Reign of Terror
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3rd Estate locked out of the Estates General
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Storming of the Bastille
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Storming the Bastille (14 July 1789)
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 French revolution in 1789 mainly focused on equality, liberty and fraternity.
Detailed explanation-4: -The seven prisoners in in residence that day were: four forgers, the Comte de Solanges (inside for ‘a sexual misdemeanour’) and two lunatics (one of them was an English or Irish man named Major Whyte who sported a waist-length beard and thought he was Julius Caesar).
Detailed explanation-5: -Launay and his men were taken into custody, the Bastille’s gunpowder and cannons were seized, and the seven prisoners were freed.