Search Results: October

Women's March on Versailles (5-6 October 1789). Outraged by high bread prices and the anti-revolutionary conduct of royal soldiers, a crowd of 7,000 women descended on the palace of Versailles. The king accompanied them back to Paris the...

The revolt in Cairo against French occupation, 21 October 1798. Painting by Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, 1810. Palace of Versailles.

Execution of Joachim Murat, former French marshal and King of Naples, by firing squad, 13 October 1815. Image from the book Patria Esercito Re by Leopoldo Pullè, 1908.

Marie Antoinette being taken from the prison of the Conciergerie to the guillotine on 16 October 1793. She appears in the center wearing a white dress, contrasted with the dark clothed figures around her. Painting by William Hamilton, 1794...

Women's March on Versailles, 5 October 1789. The National Assembly's president Jean-Joseph Mounier presides over a chatoic hall, with women marchers mingling with Assembly deputies. A man, probably Stanislas Maillard, holds a sign asking...

Emperor Napoleon I orders the II Corps of the Grande Armée into action at Augsburg on 12 October 1805, during the Ulm Campaign. Painting by Pierre-Claude Gautherot, 1808.

Actions of the first day of the Battle of Leipzig, 16 October 1813. Map by Wikipedia user Andrei nacu, 2007.

The execution of 9 emigres in October 1793, during the Reign of Terror. Illustration by an unknown artist from the book La Guillotine en 1793 by H. Fleischmann, 1908.

French Emperor Napoleon I (r.1804-1815) accepts the surrender of an Austrian army under General Mack on 20 October 1805, after the Ulm Campaign. Oil on canvas painting by René Théodore Berthon, c. 1805-1810. Palace of Versailles.

Actions on the second day of the Battle of Leipzig, 18 October 1813. Map by Wikipedia user Andrei nacu, 2008.