The Insurrection of the Nineteenth Century

Gordon was deeply annoyed with the directory for mismanaging the war and constantly sending him out there to lose. On september thirteenth, gordon rose and proposed that the councils declare the country in danger. The neo jacobin said this was an absolutely necessary step. But the moderate cenatre was not at all convinced that this was the case. Emerg powers had been necessary when we didn't have a stable constitution, but we have one now, and we should let it work. In the council of 500, the motion was defeated, 200 forty five to ae hundred, 71. Then, as luck would have it, the moderates were proven entirely correct. They