French Revolution their altars". In October the Convention troops captured Lyon and reinstated a Montagnard government there. Criteria for bringing someone before the Revolutionary Tribunal, created March 1793, had always been vast and vague. By August, political disagreement seemed enough to be summoned before the Tribunal; appeal against a Tribunal verdict was impossible. Late August 1793, an army general had been guillotined on the accusation of choosing too timid strategies on the battlefield. Mid-October, the widowed former queen Marie Antoinette was on trial for a long list of charges such as "teaching [her husband] Louis Capet the art of dissimulation" and incest
Action of 20 October 1793 36-gun frigate carrying 12 pounder cannon. Authorisation for the payment of prize money was published in the "London Gazette" on 4 February 1794, amounting to £5,239 (the equivalent of £ as of 2019) divided between the men of "Crescent" and "Circe". More than five decades later the battle was among the actions recognised by a clasp attached to the Naval General Service Medal, awarded upon application to all British participants from "Crescent" still living in 1847. Action of 20 October 1793 The Action of 20 October 1793 was a minor naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars fought off Cape