Napoleon saved the Convention with grapeshot

In 1795, the future general Bonaparte commanded the repression of a royalist insurrection led by 25,000 insurgents in Paris. Officer Joachim Murat urgently brought the essential cannons from Les Sablons, allowing Bonaparte to disperse the crowd near the Saint-Roch church. This deadly cannonade caused three hundred deaths and propelled Bonaparte to the rank of general-in-chief of the Army of the Interior as early as the month of October.