Instructional Video7:32
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The Storming of The Bastille July 14. 1789 (Part 2/3)

6th - 12th
The insanity escalates as soldiers shoot at commoners who were trying to get gunpowder from the Bastille. Now, the citizens along with deserters from the King's army have even more of a thirst for revenge. Governor de Laurnay has a...
Instructional Video5:34
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The storming of The Bastille July 14. 1789 (Part 3/3)

6th - 12th
Governor de Laurnay surrenders, and the Bastille falls to the commoners. The crowd in the streets responds by killing him. King Louis was out hunting when he received the news and merely wrote in his hunting journal one word: "Nothing."...