 Complete the following phrase:  In a twenty-page letter to his fellow republicans, Carrier promised not to leave a single counter-revolutionary or monopolist in reference to hoarders and aristocratic land owners at large in Nantes. His vigorous action was endorsed by the Committee of Public Safety, and in the following days Carrier put large numbers of prisoners aboard vessels with trap doors for bottoms, and sank them in the Loire river. These executions, especially of priests and nuns, as well as women and children, known as the 