VICTORY! Today July 14th 1789 the people triumphed over the despotism and oppression that is the French government. The Bastille has been over taken by the people and for the people. The Bastille will now undoubtedly be used as the main source for supplies for the French revolution. Holding fifteen cannons, six hundred musketoons, twelve rampart muskets with over fifteen thousand cartridges and twenty thousand pounds of powder. After determining the threat that the Bastille's cannons …
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…they would withdraw from the fortress. The agreement could not be kept several Swiss soldiers were killed by the mob on their exit from the Bastille. De Launay had his throat cut on the steps of the Hotel de Ville and his head was carried around the streets of Paris. "Two days after the Bastille was taken the National Assembly ordered that it be razed. The people rejoiced that "grass grew where the Bastille stood.""