Napoleon's whiff of grapeshot saves the Convention
1795 · Event
A royalist insurrection marches on the National Convention; an unemployed 26-year-old artillery general named Bonaparte turns cannon on the crowd in the Paris streets. The rising collapses in an afternoon — and the Republic now owes its life to the army.
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