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| | France During the French Revolution and Under Napoleon Bonaparte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Charlotte Corday, an aristocrat from Caen with sympathies for the Girondists, arranges a meeting with Marat, secretes a knife, and stabs him to death in his bath, for which she is guillotined. |
 | | The event causes "an awful pause and death-like silence for about three minutes." The battle continues until 10:00, when a lull is caused by exhaustion. |
 | | Yet, beginning the war alone, forcibly isolated as if infected by the plague, she not only repulsed the combined effort to smother her, but, changing in nature, became an expanding military menace to the rest of Europe, and ultimately, the military master of most of it." Strategy, B.H. Liddell Hart, p. |
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