Titlebook: British Society and the French Wars, 1793-1815; Clive Emsley Textbook 1979Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1979 engineering.Fre

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Leopold Bednar,Rainer HasenauerDecember 1804 Spain, too, joined the conflict on her side. Britain was alone, without allies for most of the period; her weather-beaten warships blockaded their enemy counterparts, while thousands of soliders — regulars, militiamen and volunteers — stood by awaiting a landing should the ‘wooden wall

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Berthold Schmidt,Edgar Topritzhofer the war would soon be at an end.. Others were less sanguine about the prospects of peace, and even Fox had doubts. Rightly so, for during the next four years the war was to spread even further across the globe: British troops and fleets were engaged in Holland and Spain, the length and breadth of t

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Berthold Schmidt,Edgar Topritzhofer the next month. It was left to Perceval to try to save something from the wreck. Again there was an attempt to create a coalition, bringing in men from all the principal factions; again the attempt foundered. One contemporary described Perceval going out ‘into the highways and hedges’ to find minis

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Berthold Schmidt,Edgar Topritzhofert campaigns of the revolutionary war. Europe had changed enormously during the twenty-three years. Britain was the only major power which did not experience a major invasion or a significant change in its government structure during the period. Her institutions and her sovereignty had remained intac

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Britain in 1792,ill possessed a vast overseas empire. There were the largely unpopulated and unexplored wastes of Canada and New South Wales, the more populous and far more commercially profitable possessions in the West and East Indies; closer to home, George III was also King of Ireland and Elector of Hanover — t

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,The Initial Impact: 1793–94,g a hostile attitude to France and for allying with a confederation of absolutist monarchs. William Fox, questioning whether ideas could ever be destroyed by war, maintained that the home of modern revolutionary ideas was England (citing Locke’s . in particular) and warned that the ‘despots’ of Euro

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,Crisis upon Crisis: 1795–7,he Duke of Bedford. Both were defeated. But if Pitt could still muster large majorities in Parliament to support his conduct of the war, the kind of unanimity in favour of combatting Trench principles’ abroad, as well as at home, which he and his colleagues had detected two years before, was fast di

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,From Rebellion to Respite: 1798–1801,itain was alone against a victorious France; Prussia had long since made peace, so too had Spain, who was now a French ally; in October 1797 Austria had signed the Treaty of Campo Formio. Pitt’s government was faced with the problems of maintaining and boosting morale and, as ever, raising money and