The Storming of the Bastille
The Storming of the Bastille
The Storming of the bastille was the famous day on July 14, 1789 where a huge Mob of hungry enraged blood thirsty peasants came marching to the bastille for Weapons and Prisoners that were imprisoned by king Louis XVI. What would make a Mob of angry peasants want to attack building right out the blue? What made all these Peasants so angry was the unfair and extreme taxation that middle class in the lower got from the king of the time Louis XVI. However that wasn’t problem they were mad at. The Middle Class was also mad at all the Spending the King had done that made the classes get taxed so much.
The Bastille was attacked because the people of all the people that lived in Paris at the time believed that the bastille was the symbol of Power and Brutality and also absolute monarchy. However it was also attacked because of the Weapons and ammunition stored within the Bastille. The people of France were tired of being treated unfairly and tired of not being able to voice there opinions during the time period. What they really wanted was to be equal with one another. They wanted life, liberty, and fraternity. Sadly the only way they thought they could get what they wanted was resorting to violence and that was the storming of the bastille. At the time the bastille was attacked there was only a few soldiers guarding it. These soldiers included 110 troops that guarded the castle. Due to the Lack of the Guards Guarding the Bastille the Bastille was overwhelmed and taken over with cost of many deaths.
This event the Storming of the Bastille Played great role in an event called the French Revolution and matter a fact it was the event that started the revolution, mostly because there was a lot of aftermath the happened after this event. The Storming of bastille represented the victory of the French people to the Monarchy and was the first real major challenge to monarchy. In the end of this
The Storming of the bastille was the famous day on July 14, 1789 where a huge Mob of hungry enraged blood thirsty peasants came marching to the bastille for Weapons and Prisoners that were imprisoned by king Louis XVI. What would make a Mob of angry peasants want to attack building right out the blue? What made all these Peasants so angry was the unfair and extreme taxation that middle class in the lower got from the king of the time Louis XVI. However that wasn’t problem they were mad at. The Middle Class was also mad at all the Spending the King had done that made the classes get taxed so much.
The Bastille was attacked because the people of all the people that lived in Paris at the time believed that the bastille was the symbol of Power and Brutality and also absolute monarchy. However it was also attacked because of the Weapons and ammunition stored within the Bastille. The people of France were tired of being treated unfairly and tired of not being able to voice there opinions during the time period. What they really wanted was to be equal with one another. They wanted life, liberty, and fraternity. Sadly the only way they thought they could get what they wanted was resorting to violence and that was the storming of the bastille. At the time the bastille was attacked there was only a few soldiers guarding it. These soldiers included 110 troops that guarded the castle. Due to the Lack of the Guards Guarding the Bastille the Bastille was overwhelmed and taken over with cost of many deaths.
This event the Storming of the Bastille Played great role in an event called the French Revolution and matter a fact it was the event that started the revolution, mostly because there was a lot of aftermath the happened after this event. The Storming of bastille represented the victory of the French people to the Monarchy and was the first real major challenge to monarchy. In the end of this