In December 1795, Edmund Burke used the word "Terrorists" in a description of the new French government called 'Directory':This Internet version contains two, mingled, indications of page numbers: one with single brackets like one with double brackets like [ [309 ]. Burke lengthily introduces his view on 'this present Directory government', and then writes on page "Those who arbitrarily erected the new building out of the old materials of their own Convention, were obliged to send for an Army to support their work. (...) At length, after a terrible struggle, the Troops prevailed over the Citizens. (...) This power is to last as long as the Parisians think proper. (...) [315 To secure them further, they have a strong corps of irregulars, ready armed. Thousands of those Hell-hounds called Terrorists, whom they had shut up in Prison on their last Revolution, as the Satellites of Tyranny, are let loose on the people. (...)"</ref>