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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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The Assembly de-manded the withrawal of the troops. The people cried for arms to defendthemselves. In a sudden uprising, they burst open the royal armory and seizedswords and muskets, and even cannon. The King was alarmed, and withdrewsuch troops as had already entered the city. The people seized the opportunity. The Bastille, the execrated prison towhich they might be hurried off without warning, frowned among them almostunguarded. There does not seem to have been any pre-arranged plan, but Tothe Bastille! was shouted upon all sides. ^len and women rushed thitherwith their newly snatched-up weapons. Two hundred Swiss soldiers defendedit under the governor, De Launay. There was a regular pitched battle, and an
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France—The Storming of the Bastille 907 assault, in which many were slain. It was the first bloodshed of the Revolu-tion, and Frenchmen commemorate Bastille Day, July 14, as we do the Fourthof July, our Independence Day. After several hours of determined resistance, De Launay surrendered on thepromise of safety. But these were not cultured gentlefolk, who had attackedhim. They were the ignorant masses, whom he and his kind had trampled intobrutes. Now they had gone mad, as brutes do, and had possession of the armshitherto turned against them. The gates of the Bastille were thrown open, andthe mob surged in. With their dead behind them, what did they care for theirleaders promises.? The strong castle was laid in ruins; the governor and manyof his men were slain, and their severed heads were carried through the streetson pikes. Paris tasted its first draught of blood. Then it is a revolt.? exclaimed Louis XVI. in astonishment. Nay,sire, it is a revolution, answered the messenger. Even

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