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
Golden Grove (1793 ship) Golden Grove (1793 ship) Golden Grove was launched at Southampton in 1783, but probably under another name. In 1794 she was a slave ship. Under new ownership she wrecked in late 1795. Although "Golden Grove" was launched in 1783, she does not appear in "Lloyd's Register" until 1793. At that time her master was Proudfoot, her owner was (Richard) Miles, and her trade was London—Africa. Captain John Mead Proudfoot received a letter of marque on 8 October 1793. "Golden Grove" left London on 7 November 1793, bound for Bight of Benin. On 12 December "Golden Grove" was "all well" and