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On this day in 1792, the Tuileries Palace was stormed by the National Guards of the Paris Commune and a
supplementary force of volunteers hailing from the regions of Marseille and Brittany.

Among the Royalist defenders of the palace was the
young Henri du Vergier, comte de la Rochejaquelein. An officer of the Constitutional Guard (and thus charged with defending the King), the skirmishes at Tuileries would be the young man’s first taste of combat. Unfortunately for Henri and...

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226 years ago today in 1792, French revolutionaries storm the Tuileries Palace and massacre King Louis XVI’s Swiss Guard mercenaries.

The French Revolution which had been ongoing for almost 3 years prior to this event and was about to hit a defining point. The Paris Commune grew tired of the King’s reluctance and mismanagement of implementing revolutionary demands and 20,000 insurgents marched on his palace.

The palace was a formidable position to defend. It was garrisoned by...

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Stand Watie
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(December 12, 1806 - September 9, 1871) Stand Watie was born in Georgia in 1806. He would be baptized into Christianity and learn ...
James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart
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(Born: February 6, 1833 Died: May 12, 1864) James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart was born in Virginia in 1833. Jeb attended and gradu...