Historical Epochs of the French Revolution - With The Judgment And Execution Of Louis XVI., King Of France - And A List Of The Members Of The National Convention, Who Voted For And Against His Death by Henry Goudemetz
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27th, 29 Total guillotined in Paris in the month of June 483 _July_ Religious worship abolished at Liege, the priests banished, and the churches demolished. 3. Sir Gilbert Elliot receives the crown of Corsica in the name of the King of Great-Britain. Proclamation of the Stadtholder on the dangers which threaten Holland. A festival of the human race at Paris--it ends with adopting poor children. The French take Mons and Ostend; 87 persons guillotined. Newport also falls to the French--130 emigrants shot. Tournay taken by the same. The British 7. forced to evacuate Alost. Fifty persons condemned to death. 8. The Austrians quit Brussels; the French enter it, and retake Landrecy. Spires, Mechlin, and Louvain, abandoned by the allies. Sixty persons guillotined at Brest. Robespierre, in an address to the convention, is heard for the first time with coolness. The plunder of the churches of Brabant is sent to the convention, together with two millions of livres in specie from Mons. 18. Namur opens its gates to the French. |
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