Age of Revolutions · TURNING POINT ·
Storming of the Bastille (1789)
14 Jul 1789 — A Paris crowd takes the fortress-prison, looking for gunpowder. The garrison falls; the king’s army stands aside; power has changed hands.
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- French Revolution (chapter 3 of Age of Revolutions)
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- The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848
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