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FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WARS (1792-1800)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 171 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY See also:WARS (1792-1800) , the See also:general name for the first See also:part of the See also:series of French wars which went on continuously, except for some See also:local and temporary cessations of hostilities, from the See also:declaration of See also:war against See also:Britain in 1792 to the final overthrow of See also:Napoleon in 1815. The most important of these cessations—viz. the See also:peace of 1801-1803—closes the " Revolutionary " and opens the " See also:Napoleonic " era of See also:land warfare, for which see NAPOLEONIC See also:CAMPAIGNS, See also:PENINSULAR WAR and See also:WATERLOO See also:CAMPAIGN.

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