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Bastille 6 - Coggle Diagram
Bastille 6
SOURCES OF DISSENSION
12 July '89 Necker fired (100)
Solidarity 5k to 6K march
Attacked by German Calvary - 12 die (101)
French Guard attacks Germans
Paris free of military (101)
After attack, sacked gun shops, weapons search
Paris infested with vagabonds (102)
Night of 12 July
Insurgent attack customs barriers
St Lazare Convent sacked (103)
Grain taken
Wine taken
Furniture smashed
By night 13 July all jails opened except Bastille
Need ARMS! 14 July (110)
Les Invalides Armory
Cannons removed
30K rifles taken
Bastille after Invalides
Rumors of Invasion by French troops in the countryside
AFTER BASTILLE
Launay decapated
Lt. Gov decapatated
some guards decapitated
Rumors of Royal counterattack
All 60 districts barricade
over 1K cannons positioned
Meanwhile @ Versailles
King did nada
Cannoneers abandon their post
July 15
King travels to National Assembly
asked for calm/peace restored
1st & 2nd Esates cheer
3rd estate quiet
July 18
King leaves for Paris alone(117)
Ratified Paris' Municipal Revolution
Leaves for Versailles cheered
ASSAULT ON BASTILLE (111)
80 ft walls
1st assualt
Militia, French Guards break outer drawbridge chain
Insurgent fill moat w/ rocks, wood, debris
Bastille fires back/deadly
1st assualt retreat
2nd Assault
Exchange of gunfire
Insurgent fire cannonballs
Parlay of 12
Marquis de Launay surrenders ( 112)
MILITARY
Royal Allemand Calvary (German)
fled to Versailles
French Guard
Bourgeois militia
60 units in Paris after 12 July
Encouraged French Guard defectors
500-600 do so (105)
No fighting experience (107)
Soldiers interfering will be hung! (107)
Propertied Parisians make up force (108)
Control Paris streets morn of 14 Jul
Symbolic Significance
Once represented crown's Absolutist might (112)
"...a unique revolution" (113)
Assembly of Electors
Meet 12 July after Paris emptied of military
General Assembly
Set up military command structure
48K men, 60 districts
Under 20K had muskets (110)
Lafayette given Command of Bourgeois Militia