The progress of the war Flashcards

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Levee en masse

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  • August 1793
  • CPS
  • All men between 18-25 to give immediate military service
  • Women to ‘make tents and service in hospitals’
  • Particularly angered Vendeans
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Marat death

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  • July 1793
  • Murdered by Charlotte Corday
  • Encouraged sans-culottes to rise on September 5th
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Law of Suspects

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  • September 1793
  • Nobles, relatives of emigres and hoarders of goods all defined as suspects
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Sans-culottes march on convention 1793

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  • September 1793
  • Demanded lower bread prices and an attack on counter revolutionaries
  • Jacobins conceded legislation: Law of Suspects and General Maximum
  • Radicalised revolution
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