Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, after refusing to carry out…
January 1794 CE
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, after refusing to carry out an impossible order, is hauled before the Committee of Public Safety on January 10, 1794.
Carnot presents Jourdan's arrest warrant, which is signed by Robespierre, Bertrand Barère, and Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois.
Jourdan is saved from certain execution when an eyewitness, Representative-on-mission Ernest Joseph Duquesnoy, rises and contradicts Carnot's version of events at Wattignies.
Spared from arrest, Jourdan is nevertheless dismissed from the army and sent home.
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