On the 14th of July in 1789, a crowd of nearly one thousand protesters stormed the Bastille in Paris, France, a major event in the French Revolution, commemorated annually as "Bastille Day".
In the months running up to the uprising, the people of France were facing a dire economic crisis, food shortage, and increased militarization of Paris on orders of King Louis XVI. The Bastille was an armory and prison, perceived by many as a symbol of royal authority in the city.
On the morning of July 14th, a crowd of approximately one thousand people surrounded the Bastille, calling for the surrender of the prison, the removal of its cannon, and the release of the arms and gunpowder stored there.
After negotiations stalled, the crowd surged into the courtyard of the Bastille and were fired upon by troops in the garrison. In the carnage that followed, ninety-eight protesters and one defender of the Bastille were killed.
Governor Marquis de Launay, fearing his troops could not hold out, capitulated to the crowd and opened up the Bastille doors. He was captured and dragged towards the HΓ΄tel de Ville in a storm of abuse. While the crowd debated his fate, the badly beaten Launay shouted "Enough! Let me die!", kicked a pastry cook in the groin, and was then promptly stabbed to death.
As news of the successful seizure of the Bastille spread throughout the country, revolutionaries established parallel structures of power for government and militias for civic protection, burned deeds of property, and in some cases attacked wealthy landlords.
King Louis XVI first learned of the storming the next morning through the Duke of La Rochefoucauld. "Is it a revolt?" asked the King. The duke replied: "No sire, it's not a revolt; it's a revolution."
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I've been playing Fallout 4. I've been quarantining certain parts of the games until I want to introduce them. Because I did an alternative start, I initially avoided re-forming the minutemen and I've been avoiding doing reunions which brings the Brotherhood of Steel into the commonwealth. Playing in a commonwealth with just the existing settlements, Railroad versus Institute, was a tighter experience with less baggage. But after a while running around as the Silver Shroud, I got bored and I decided to rebuild the Minutemen as their General. Silver Shroud outfit packed up in a safe under my bed (unless I'm doing Railroad Missions). I'm squinting my brain to try and make it a better game where I create a proto-nation to rival the NCR.
So, with a central hub at the castle, I'm running supply lines to all the farming settlements around the commonwealth. I've equipped all my Minutemen at the castle, provisioners and artillerymen at settlements in copies of Preston Garvey's outfit enhanced with the first level of ballistic weave to give at least my core minutemen a standardized uniform. I've given them all laser musket (scattered ones for provisioners). We've got many power Armour suits with the Revolutionary minutemen paint from the creation club (which makes it look like a continental army uniform). The castle is rebuilt and heavily fortified, but also a significant trading hub with a sweet tropical themed bar with Drinking Buddy and Ron Staples.
I'm trying to capture the Revolutionary War vibes rather than USA. So no USA flags stuff. Like the silliness of a bunch of people mythologizing the events of 500 years ago without any context before or after. Some of the creation club DLC involves fighting Enclave Remnants and there's something fun at the idea of this new nation I'm building killing off some of the last pieces of the old USA. We're building a new nation baby over the corpse of the old.
I'm planning on never joining the Brotherhood of Steel and probably having a fun war with them. I like the idea of them arriving and I've actually managed to restore an albeit primitive nation-state to defeat them via my artillery and supply lines. Danse gave me "Righteous Authority", which I have renamed "Enemy to Tyrants", (from the Sidney Algernon quote "this hand, an enemy to tyrants, seeks with the sword peaceful repose under liberty" which in turn inspired the Massachusetts motto "By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty").
Also I sought of fell into using Party girl, the perk that gives you 3 luck (making it 13 for me) if you're drunk. The outcome, I'm drinking iced cold beers before all conversations and fights. Given I've found the 500 year old radioactive revolutionary sword and drinking a Dirty Wastlander mixed drink gives me a 6+ strength boost I'm thinking of dipping into melee perks as I've sort of maxed most of my gunslinger/better criticals/four leaf clover/grim reaper's sprint combo and most will work with big leagues.
Though infiltrating the BoS for the Railroad fits and I could reform Danse to have as minuteman commander. But they're so fash ugh.
Could still fight them for a bit before blowing up their zeppelin though.
Itβs fun to not immediately have enough artillery to blow up their airship because then they try and attack your settlements that do have them and you can have a little war with them