Following the Women's March on Versailles, the royal family was forced to return to Paris. They remained virtual prisoners in the Tuileries, the official residence of the king. Louis XVI became emotionally paralyzed, leaving most important decisions to the queen.
During the French-Indian war (1754-1763) Quebec's natural defense was that it was stationed on a 200-foot cliff overlooking the St. Lawrence River. In the Battle of Quebec, British army scaled the cliffs and defeated French forces. Quebec was also the oldest French settlement in North America.
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Even though the devastation caused by the atomic bomb was tremendous, and had killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens, the Emperor refused to back down. Surrender in the Japanese culture is shunned very harshly as it made one cowardly.