Prosecution Exhibit 2B

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The men from Marseilles proceeded to drive from their posts several Swiss, who yielded without resistance; a few of the attackers fired at them; some of the Swiss officers, seeing their men fall, and perhaps thinking the King was still at the Tuileries, ordered a whole battalion to fire. The attackers disbanded, and the Carousel was cleared in a moment; but they soon returned, spurred on by rage and revenge. The Swiss Guards were but eight hundred strong; they retreated to the interior of the Palace. Some of the doors were battered in by guns, others broken through with hatchets; the populace rushed from all quarters into the palace; almost all the Swiss were massacred; the nobles, fleeing through the gallery which leads to the Louvre, were either stabbed or shot, and their bodies thrown out of the windows.

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