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The Storming of the Bastille was a decisive moment in the early months of the French Revolution (1789-1799). On 14 July 1789, the Bastille, a fortress and political prison symbolizing the oppressiveness of France’s Ancien Régime was attacked...

The Storming of the Tuileries Palace, also commonly known as the Insurrection of 10 August, was a defining moment in the French Revolution (1789-99) that saw the armed revolutionaries of Paris invade the residence of King Louis XVI of France...

The storming of Bristol, a port then second only in importance to London, on 26 July 1643 by Royalist forces led by Prince Rupert (1619-1682) was a major coup against the Parliamentarians during the English Civil Wars (1642-1651). The Royalists...

Storming of the Tuileries Palace during the French Revolution, 10 August 1792. Oil on canvas by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux, 1793. Palace of Versailles.

Painting depicting the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, specifically of the arrest of the Marquis de Launay, governor of the Bastille, by revolutionaries. Circa 1789-1791, painter unidentified. Currently in the Museum of the History...

Marshal Jean Lannes leads the French troops in the storming of the citadel of Ratisbon on 23 April 1809, during the War of the Fifth Coalition (1809). Painting by Charles Thévenin, 1810. Palace of Versailles.

Storming of La Haye Sainte by the French during the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815). Painting by Richard Knötel.

The Americans storm the British position at redoubt 10 during the Siege of Yorktown (28 September to 19 October 1781). By Eugène Lami, 1840.

The Americans storm Redoubt No. 10 on 14 October 1781 during the Siege of Yorktown. By H. Charles McBarron, Jr., from the US Army Chief of Military Historians office.

French soldiers storm Redoubt No. 9 on 14 October 1781 during the Siege of Yorktown. By Onfroy de Breville, c. 1900.