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10th of August (French Revolution)

The Insurrection of 10 August 1792
Part of the French Revolution
Jacques Bertaux - Prise du palais des Tuileries - 1793.jpg
Prise du palais des Tuileries
Jean Duplessis-Bertaux () (1747–1819)
National Museum of the Chateau de Versailles, 1793
Date 10 August 1792
Location Paris, France
Result Republican victory
Belligerents

France Republicans:

 Royalists:

Commanders and leaders
France Antoine Joseph Santerre
France François Joseph Westermann
France Charles-Alexis Alexandre
France Claude Fournier-L'Héritier
France Claude François Lazowski
Louis XVI Surrendered
Augustin-Joseph de Mailly
Karl Josef von Bachmann
Strength
~20,000
12 cannons
900 Swiss Guard
200 to 300 Gentlemen-at-arms
Some royalist National Guards
Casualties and losses
200 to 400 killed 600 killed
200 captured

France Republicans:

 Royalists:

The Insurrection of 10 August 1792 was one of the defining events in the history of the French Revolution. The storming of the Tuileries Palace by the National Guard of the insurrectional Paris Commune and revolutionary fédérés from Marseilles and Brittany resulted in the fall of the French monarchy. King Louis XVI and the royal family took shelter with the Legislative Assembly, which was suspended. The formal end of the monarchy that occurred six weeks later was one of the first acts of the new National Convention. This insurrection and its outcome are most commonly referred to by historians of the Revolution simply as "the 10 August"; other common designations include "the journée of the 10 August" (French: journée du 10 août) or "the Second Revolution".


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