The Thermadorians' Mistakes in Paris

Right-wing militants were trading musket fire with government patrols through their neighborhoods. Immigré noblemen and royalist rebel leaders from the Vondé infiltrated the city to organize an uprising. The convention scraped together what regular army forces they could from around the capital, but this amounted to only a few thousand men. Any former officer in the city who had been dismissed from the army as a Jacobins sympathizer was offered his commission back.