14 Jul 1789 Jahr - The Storming of the Bastille
Beschreibung:
- Bastille---French Prison, symbol of oppression
- taken down
- At this point did not have many prisoners in it
- Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress and prison that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs
- About 1000 revolutionaries attacked (100 died)
- Revolutionaries were worried about a french army attack
- Needed to be able to fight back
- Raided Hotel des Invalides first in order to get muskets
- Had no gunpowder
- Bastille rumored to be have gunpowder
- Bernard-René Jordan de Launay
- Military governor of Bastille
- Surrendered because the Bastille was overwhelmed by Parisians
- Was killed by a mob before he could be arrested
- Capture of the Bastille symbolized end of the ancien regime (old regime)
- Provided the French revolutionary cause with tons of momentum
- Represented a powerful win for revolutionaries
- Showed ordinary people could overpower the government
- Revolutionaries have the ability to defend themselves
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1 phase of French Revolution
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