Historedia
Group or institution

The robbers

Events
1
Episodes
1
Years
1796

Every event in Historedia whose sources name The robbers, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Case of the Lyons Mail

    1796

    Role: Collective: several unnamed men who ambushed the coach

    1. 27–28 April 1796 · Commune of Vert-Saint-Denis, outside ParisAmbush of the Lyon mail coach

      Several men ambushed the Paris–Lyon mail coach at Vert-Saint-Denis during the night of 27–28 April 1796, stealing 7 million livres.

Sources

  1. Courrier de Lyon case Wikipedia, revision of 2026-04-27