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
HMS Berbice (1793) HMS Berbice (1793) HMS "Berbice" was the French privateer "Berbice" that the British Royal Navy captured in 1793 and took into service under her existing name. She foundered in 1796. The Navy commissioned her in October 1793 under Lieutenant Thomas Oliver, for the Leeward Islands station. There is some ambiguity about the which officers commanded her and when. At one point Midshipman John F. Devonshire (eventually Admiral Sir John Devenshire) took command on the death of "Berbice"s commander. Devonshire then patrolled the coasts of Puerto Rico where he, with the Spaniards, suppressed the French privateers that not only impeded the