No device decapitated people in the revolutionary war. It was in the French Revolution that the guillotine was used.
At the outbreak of the French Revolution, the reigning monarchs were King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette. The King was decapitated by guillotine on January 21, 1793, and the Queen was decapitated by guillotine on October 16, 1793.
The Guillotine was a French instrument of execution.
The French revolution was extraordinarily bloody and characterised by daily cartloads of French aristocrats being taken to the guillotine for public beheading. Madam la Guillotine became a notorious spectacle of the revolution.
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French physician Joseph Ignace Guillotin proposed the use of the guillotine in 1789.
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King Louis XVI's trial for treason started around the middle of January, 1793 and ended when he was decapitated by the guillotine.