Revolutions

3.52- There is Your Man

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Sep 21, 2015
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INSIGHT

Crisis Made The Directory Vulnerable

  • By November 1799 the Directory faced military defeats, conscription unrest, and resurgent neo-Jacobin energy that made it appear near collapse.
  • These combined pressures set the stage for an authoritarian alternative focused on order rather than democratic liberty.
ANECDOTE

Draft Riots And Royalist Schemes

  • Peasant resistance to the draft flared across France in 1799 and royalist agents tried to exploit it to spark civil war.
  • A major uprising near Toulouse was suppressed by pro-Republican local forces, undermining royalist hopes.
INSIGHT

Invaders Misread Local Sentiment

  • The Anglo-Russian invasion of the Batavian Republic relied on faulty intelligence and assumed Dutch welcome that never materialized.
  • Poor coordination, flooding, and Dutch resistance turned allied numbers into defeat at Castricum and a chaotic retreat.
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