If the storming of bastille was so historical and known as the independence day of France, what exactly are they celebrating? What I want to know is how many casualties there were at the Storming of the Bastille. To give that topic further detail who were the people who were that stormed the prison, who died, who got injured, how they died, and how many.

Parisian progressives and mutinous troops storm and destroy the Bastille, an imperial post that had come to symbolize the oppression of the Bourbon rulers. On July 13, progressives with black powder rifles started shooting at troopers standing gatekeeper on the Bastille's towers and after that took spread in the Bastille's patio when Launay's men shot back. That night, hordes raged the Paris