The Allies Didn't Go on the Attack

The allies did not go on the attack. Their firm belief was that the small click of radicals in paris were about to be consumed by the combined efforts of the vade uprising and the federalist insurrections. All they needed to do was maintained pressure on the periphery and the centre would collapse all by itself. But as i just mentioned, instead of capitalizing on their victories and the weakness of the french, the allies elected to linger on the periphery. And up in belgium, they simply moved off to take two more fortress cities, rather than truly launch an invasion. So the huge allied army on the belgian frontier, now numbering almost a hundred thousand, was divided up