July 14, is recognised as World Bastille Day. The incident which took place on 14 July in the Fortress Prison, Bastille marked the starting point of a century long battle against the tyranny of monarchs in all of Europe and America. The idea of Nationalism which started as a spark rose to become a gigantic fire which saved the people of many countries .
On the morning of 14 July 1789, the city of Paris was in a state of alarm. The king had commanded troops to move into the city. Rumours
spread that he would soon order the army to open fire upon the citizens.
Some 7,000 men and women gathered in front of the town hall and decided to form a peoples' militia. They broke into a number of government buildings in search of arms.
Finally, a group of several hundred people marched towards the eastern part of the city and stormed the fortress-prison, the Bastille, where they hoped to find hoarded ammunition.
In the armed fight that followed, the commander of the Bastille was killed and the prisoners released - though there were only seven of them.
Yet the Bastille was hated by all, because it stood for the despotic power of the king.
The fortress was demolished and its stone fragments were sold in the markets to all
those who wished to keep a souvenir of its destruction.
Such a great start fight against tyranny
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