The Battle of the Berliners

Crowds in front of the palace were already feeling betrayed by the king for offering them some empty platitudes before ordering in the army to kill them all. So they began constructing barricades all over the place and arming themselves as best they could, often with nothing more than cudgels for hand-to-hand fighting. By dawn the next day, 800 insurgent Berliners and about 100 soldiers lay dead and somewhere around 2,500 were wounded. That's about the same as were killed in the Paris revolutions of 1830 and 1848 combined, all in a single day.