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 Imperieuse (1793) HMS Imperieuse (1793) The Impérieuse was a 40-gun "Minerve"-class frigate of the French Navy. The Royal Navy captured her in 1793 and she served first as HMS "Imperieuse" and then from 1803 as HMS "Unite". She became a hospital hulk in 1836 and was broken up in 1858. In 1788, "Imperieuse" cruised in the Middle East, and the Aegean Sea the two following years. She performed another cruise off the Middle East before returning to Toulon. On 11 October 1793, "Impérieuse" was captured off La Spezia by HMS "Captain" and the Spanish ship of the line "Bahama" following the Raid