Why did the soldiers not attack the people during the French Revolution?
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Answer:
The French Revolutionary Wars (French: Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until 1802 and resulting from the French Revolution. They pitted France against Great Britain, Austria, the Holy Roman Empire, Prussia, Russia, and several other monarchies. They are divided in two periods: the War of the First Coalition (1792–97) and the War of the Second Coalition (1798–1802). Initially confined to Europe, the fighting gradually assumed a global dimension. After a decade of constant warfare and aggressive diplomacy, France had conquered territories in the Italian Peninsula, the Low Countries and the Rhineland in Europe and abandoned Louisiana in North America. French success in these conflicts ensured the spread of revolutionary principles over much of Europe
The soldiers did not attack as the fighting would have gradually assumed a global dimension.
Explanation:
- The French Revolution struck the nascent rationalistic idea of strategy in 1789, and it never fully recovered, though some of its tenets were repeated by succeeding schools of thought.
- The techniques of the Revolutionary government's armies, as well as those of the Directory (1795–99) and Napoleon (1799–1814/15), were superficially similar to those of the ancien régime.
- However, the energy generated by revolutionary enthusiasm, the resources made available by mass conscription and a powerful state, and the fervour generated by ideological zeal revolutionised tactics.