 He ordered a young cavalry officer named Joachim Murat to seize large cannons and used them to repel the attackers on 5 October 1795—"13 Vendémiaire An IV" in the French Republican Calendar; 1,400 royalists died and the rest fled.He had cleared the streets with "a whiff of grapeshot", according to 19th-century historian Thomas Carlyle in "".The defeat of the royalist insurrection extinguished the threat to the Convention and earned Bonaparte sudden fame, wealth, and the patronage of the new government, the Directory.