70–74; Jourdan, pp.




He left the army’s management to the Duke of Brunswick, Charles William Ferdinand.

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(Constitutional) monarchy was suspended on 10 August following the assault on the Tuileries, and abolished 21 September 1792Re-entered the war as an ally of France after signing the Officially neutral, although participated in many engagements.Masséna, commanding the Army of Switzerland, sent a Rothenberg, pp.



Now France took the chance to export the revolution, and the United Provinces became the Batavian Republic. traditional means than to the initiation of the The unprecedented successes of the French in the Revolutionary French Revolutionary wars, title given to the hostilities between France and one or more European powers between 1792 and 1799. Two entire regiments, the Lacking not only trained officers, but also mounts and equipment, the Revolutionary Cavalry became the worst equipped arm of the Revolutionary Army. On the On the middle Rhine front in July, General Michaud's Army of the Rhine attempted two offensives in July in the At sea, the French Atlantic Fleet succeeded in holding off a British attempt to interdict a vital cereal By the end of the year French armies had won victories on all fronts, and as the year closed they began advancing into the Netherlands.
By 1797 the French had defeated the In addition to opening a flood of tactical and strategic opportunities, the Revolutionary Wars also laid the foundation for modern military theory.





p. 109Parker, Geoffrey. C. W. Blanning, The French Revolutionary Wars.



Initially confined to Europe, the fighting gradually assumed a global dime… Britain began military preparations in late 1792 and declared that war was inevitable unless France gave up its conquests, notwithstanding French assurances they would not attack Holland or annex the Low Countries.France suffered severe reverses at first. The Cambridge history of warfare. The French Revolutionary Wars (French: Guerres Révolutionnaires Françaises) were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until 1802 and resulting from the French Revolution. Instead, he advanced on However, Melas had not raised the siege of Genoa, and on 4 June, Masséna had duly capitulated.













On 4 and 5 May, the French launched repeated and fruitless assaults on the Messkirch.

p. 189 Jean-Paul Bertaud is the leading French authority on the army of the French Revolution, and La Revolution armee is the authortative treatment of the firest great national, patriotic, revolutionary, and mass army, engaged in what has been called the first total war: that between revolutionary France and the other European powers.



His defensive posture would not prevent this; he had to find and attack the Austrians before they could regroup.

wars were due to their advantages in numbers; to the fact that

Revolutionary fervour, along with calls to save the new regime, resulted in a large influx of enthusiastic yet untrained and undisciplined volunteers (the first Officially, the Revolutionary Armies were operating along the guidelines set down in the Realizing that the army was not capable of conforming with the In the 1770s, some commanders, among them the brilliant The French struck first, with an invasion of the Austrian Netherlands proposed by foreign minister In August 1792, a large Austro-Prussian army commanded by the The Battle of Valmy ensured that the Revolutionary armies were respected by their enemies, and for the next ten years they not only defended the fledgling First French Republic, but under the command of Generals such as On 23 August 1793, at Carnot's insistence, the Convention issued the following proclamation ordering a All unmarried able bodied men aged between 18 and 25 were to report immediately for military service.

They are associated above all with the appearance in France, and with the imposition by France on neighbouring states, of fundamental changes in the structure of the state and society. The French Revolution was a watershed event in modern European history that began in 1789 and ended in the late 1790s with the ascent of Napoleon Bonaparte. Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription.





that of its allies. developed nation on the Continent; and finally to the often contradictory

Throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, the British avoided recourse to a system of direct conscription for the army, and the pressing of men for the navy fell, or was intended to fall, on merchant seamen. Revolutionary France.



The Duke was an old man with an old approach to the arts of war.