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The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire, Vol. 1 of 2: 1793-1812 (Classic Reprint)
The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire Vol 1 of 2 17931812 - Classic Reprint Author:A. T. Mahan TilE INl~LUENCE OF SEA PO"TER t:PO!'l TIll> FRE:"CH REVOLUTION AXD E')lPIRE. -"- CHAPTER I. Il'TRODUCTOll.Y. OUTLINE OF EVE~nS I~ El:flOI'E, 1783-1793. T n ~ ten years followiJlg" the Peace of Versailles, September :3, 1783, coming" between the two great wars of American Independence and of the Fl'ench Revolution, seem like a. time of stagnation... more », The muttering and heu"iug which foretold t.he oncorue of the later struggle wel'c illdeed to be heal·d by those .... hosc ears were opeD, long before 1793. The opcning events and violences which marked the political revolution were of carlic}' date, ami war with Austl·ia and Prussia be~an even in 1792; but the year' 1793 stantIs out with :.t peculial' prominence, marked as it is by tIle murder of the king and queen, the beginning of the Reig'n of Terror, and the outbreak of. hostilities with the great Sc:a. Power, whose stubborn l relentless purpose antI mighty wealth were to exert the uccisive influ
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CONTENTS OF YOLo I; CHAPTER r; L'ITnODUCTORY; O(;TLlNE OF EVEXTS IN EUROI'E, 1783-1793; l'AG2; rromiDence of the year 1793 ? 1; Lending features and results of the war of 1778 2; Condition of tbe different belligereuts at its terminatioD 3; Success of the i)ecolld Pitt as a peace minister 5; AU'antagc to Great Brit·aiD arising from his secure tenure of; power ? ? ?; De~ire of Western Europe for peace; Causes of disturbance; Acceo;c;ioll of Joseph II to crOWD of Austria; ; Commercial exptln')ion of Austri:tn Xetherlands during; of 1,78 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?; Quei)tioll of the nangation of the Scheldt ; Wide-spread interests therein invoh'ed ? ?; The Eastern Question, liSO-1790; Change of relations between Great liritain and Russia; 1770 to 17S5 ? ?; war; from; Interests of France and of Great Britain in the Levant and; 6; 7; i; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; Baltic ? , 14; Importance of j n t,,,,erp as n na":J station );); Intorests of European States in Holland and th« less