HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Mercantilism, Bicameralism, Feudalism
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only solution was war on a european scale. to the conservative leaders of europe, the war against france was a kind of crusade in which powers of monarchy, legitimacy, authority, & church to prosecute the root of all of their fears. armies of revolutionary france left leaderless (aristocrats left the country), soldiers left unpaid due to experiments. armies divided by factual disputes, still able to halt the prussian advance (won by non-artillery officers) french army managed to drive invaders from french soil; one of the heroes who did so was napoleon, a young artillery officer from corsica. coup that brought him to power occurred 10 years after the french revolution (revolution made possible his rise first in the military, & then to supreme power in france) built on his strengths and reputation for being a battlefield genius.
