Defeat Means Hunger and Poverty

After the run of treaties in the spring and summer of 17 95, pulled the prussians, the dutch and the spanish out of the war. The french were left to face off against the british and the austrians. But with the brits mostly focused now on using their naval power,. that meant that the only land power that threatened france was the austrians and their various little satellite principalities. So just as the termidorian convention was handing power to the directory in the fall of 1795, they ordered their two major armies along the rhine to go on the offensive  with the intention of seizing all the major strongholds the great river.