... 2-7), in which frenzied mobs entered jails throughout Paris and killed approximately 2,000 prisoners, many in grisly fashion. It was the mass killings of nobels and the manner in which it was done that basically turned off the English and American peoples. The citizens of this new America saw themselves as more civilized than those of a country of murderers and scoundrels and could give no support to a cause executed in such an animalistic manner. Only to follow was the Reign of Terror. Instead of a democracy the Convention established a war dictatorship operating through the Committee of Public Safety, the Committee of General Security, and numerous agencies such as the Revolutionary Tribunal. Known to history as the Reign of Terror, this period represented the efforts of a few men to govern the country and wage war in a time of crisis. Georges Danton and Maximilien Robespierre dominated the new government, ...

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