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Celebratory crowd at Ground Zero following the announcement. Woman in Times Square celebrating bin Laden's death. Flagwaving in Times Square on May 2, 2011. Even before the official announcement, crowds gathered spontaneously to celebrate outside the White House, where thousands assembled. [4]
During the Reign of Terror, the sans-culottes and the Hébertists put pressure on the National Convention delegates and contributed to the overall instability of France. The National Convention was bitterly split between the Montagnards and the Girondins .
Revolutionary terror, also referred to as revolutionary terrorism or reign of terror, [1] refers to the institutionalized application of force to counter-revolutionaries, particularly during the French Revolution from the years 1793 to 1795 (see the Reign of Terror).
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 December 2024. Part of a series on Terrorism and political violence Definitions History Incidents By ideology Anarchist Communist Left-wing/Far-left Narcotics-driven Nationalist Zionist Palestinian Right-wing/Far-right Religious Buddhist Christian Mormon Hindu Islamic Salafi-Wahhabi Jewish Sikh ...
The provisional Revolutionary Tribunal was established on 17 August 1792 in response to the Storming of the Tuileries, to ensure that there was some appropriate legal process for dealing with suspects accused of political crimes and treason, rather than arbitrary killing by local committees.
The Committee of General Security was located in Hôtel de Brionne on the right; it gathered on the first floor. (The Tuileries Palace, which housed the convention, is on the left)
On September 11, 2001 a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States killed approximately 3000 people. These attacks appear to have been carried out by a small group of individuals who formed part of the al-Qaida network: Islamists without formal backing from any state (though there were and are suspicions that Al-Qaida was aided and funded by several Arab/Muslim countries).
The twenty-four months from July, 1794, to July, 1796, placed enormous pressures on the people of France and their government. These pressures included civil wars in western France, wars with most of Europe, a famine in 1795, a new constitution in 1795, economic collapse, and two insurrections in Paris - one in July of 1794 to end the terror, and a second in the fall of 1795 by royalists ...