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Describe the events of 14 july 1789.​

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Answered by KrishJethwani40
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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

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Answered by Rubellite
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  • On 14 July 1789, the Bastille(fortress prison) fell in the city of Paris and the city was in a state of alarm.
  • Rumours were ripe in the city of Paris that the king had ordered troops to move into the city and fire upon citizens.
  • Some 7000 men and women who had formed a people militia broke into the government buildings in search of arms.
  • Of these a few hundred stormed the fortress prison, the Bastille, in search of hoared ammunition.
  • In the armed fight the commander of the Bastille was killed and the prisoners released. The fortress wad hated by people as it stood for the despotic power of the king.
  • The fortress was demolished and its stone fragments sold in the market as souvenir of its destruction.

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