Failure of the royalist coup in Paris.

Failure of the royalist coup in Paris.

On October 5th, 1795: An armed royalist uprising threatens the Convention. On the orders of Paul Barras, in charge of the defense of Paris, General Bonaparte leads the army against the uprising.

The defeat of attempted Parisian insurrection of 13 Vendémiaire by the troops of the Convention by Napoleon Bonaparte’s ‘whiff of grapeshot’.

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