The Second Coalition - The Russians and the Ottomans

The great irish revolutionary wolf tone was one of those captured. And that's how he winds up, convicted of treason and hanged in november 17 98. So by now, the fall of 17 98, the directory's supreme confidence has been a bit shaken. Their efforts in ireland were coming to naught just as they were digesting news of nelson's destruction of bonaparte's fleet at abocure bay. The french defeat brought in two new players into the game, the russians and the ottomans. Ever since the fall of the bastille, catherine the great had been one of revolutionary france's harshest and most consistent critics.