The French Revolution and the International Situation

It is tough to say whether these more respectable revolutionaries would have been able to keep things on course had they transitioned into controlling the legislative assembly. But i cannot imagine things would have spiralled out of control quite so fast had power not been handed to brusseu and his gurandan colleagues, who immediately started beating the drums of war. So since the onset of the war is the re big, central pivot point of the french revolution, let's stop for a minute and review the international situation. As you will recall, we have our five major powers, france, austria, prussia, britain and russia. The really shocking event that put everyone on notice that