to industry and monuments dedicated to humanity and public instruction. On the ruins of Lyon would be erected a commemorative column which would testify to posterity the crimes committed and the punishment received by the city's royalists, with the inscription "Lyon made war on liberty: Lyon is no more!". In the event, of 600 houses scheduled for demolition, only about fifty were actually destroyed. References Smith, D. The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book. Greenhill Books, 1998. Sieges involving France Sieges of the French Revolutionary Wars Battles of the French Revolutionary Wars Battles in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 1793 in France Conflicts in 1793