HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: German Confederation, French Revolution, Holy Alliance
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French revolution - came out of 7 yrs war. Some believe they are fighting for something, something new. British pay for continuing war and remain together after napoleons defeat 20 years later. Ruthless man: waterloo - british defeat napoleon. Dutch republic - takes netherlands: = opens to britihs trade again. German confederation - kind of like holy roman empire: unite smaller states in defense (too strong to be attacked by france, not centralized - too weak to. France - those who defeated france determine that they wont punish france since better if they were agreeable to it. Quadruple alliance: 4 states agree that france should exist but that france was aggressive, worried it would always be aggressive. If aggressive again - would immediately cooperate to end france threat: all great powers in alliance against france. No general war in europe until 1914-1918: no total wars.
