The French Revolution: Massacre at the Palace (TRIH ep 506, part 4)
1792 · Resource
This episode traces the critical summer of 1792 when military reverses, political panic and popular mobilisation transformed the French Revolution. Holland and Sandbrook outline the French defeats in the Austrian Netherlands and the collapse of army discipline, which fuelled a paranoid political climate in Paris.
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Around 1792
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Revolution (1765)