Cambridge Military Histories #: Revolutionary France's War of Conquest in the Rhineland

Conquering the Natural Frontier, 1792-1797

Cambridge Military Histories #: Revolutionary France's War of Conquest in the Rhineland
Jordan R Hayworth
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In May 1790, the French National Assembly renounced wars of conquest. Two years later, France declared war on Austria and invaded Belgium and the Rhineland, claiming it was to spread the benefits of the Revolution. Soon, however, military and economic crises drove a shift in the nature of France' s war effort. What started as a war for liberty became a war for conquest, one that brought devastating exploitation to the Rhineland. It was during this time that French foreign policy became influenced by the idea of attaining the natural frontiers - the Alps, the Pyrenees, and, most significantly, the Rhine. Although often portrayed as a diplomatic tradition of the French monarchy, Jordan R. Hayworth shows how the natural frontiers policy was born during the Revolution. In addition, he examines the intense and consequential debates that arose over the policy, which caused much confusion in the war and helped to undermine France' s democratic experiment.

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' A timely reassessment of Albert Sorel' s famous thesis about the role of natural frontiers in the history of French foreign policy. The author makes the story much more complex and therefore interesting. He also shines much new light on the French Revolution' s expansion into Belgium and the Rhineland. ' Donald Sutherland, University of Maryland ' A much-needed work: whilst political and social aspects of the Rhineland' s occupation by the armies of the Republic have been discussed extensively, the military campaigns which gave rise to that occupation remain all but unknown. Not only has this deficiency been remedied, but it has been remedied in a fashion as scholarly as it is spritely. ' Charles J. Esdaile, University of Liverpool ' Jordan R. Hayworth argues that, if the French Revolution brought the concept of natural frontiers into the political mainstream, it played only a limited role in military planning. In this important book, he follows the campaigns of one army, the Sambre-et-Meuse, and analyzes the complex relationship between ideas, politics, and war. ' Alan Forrest, University of York ' Hayworth comprehensively flips the myth of France' s ' natural frontiers' on its head by showing that it was not rooted in French history, but rather in the diplomatic and military dimensions of the early years of the Revolution. By weaving together the philosophical and political debates with the unfolding military campaigns, we now have a clearer understanding of the relationship between revolutionary ideology and revolutionary strategy. ' Philip Dwyer, University of Newcastle ' . . . Prof. Hayworth (Air Command and Staff College), has written an impressive account of why and how, within a few years of renouncing wars of conquest, France undertook and carried out a successful war to secure the Rhineland . . . an excellent account [of] what has been a largely neglected war. ' The NYMAS Review
Jordan R. Hayworth is an Assistant Professor of Military and Security Studies at the United States Air Command and General Staff College, Alabama. He is a member of the Society for Military History and the Society for French Historical Studies. In 2016, he won the Society for Military History' s Edward M. Coffman First Manuscript Prize.
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ISBN-13: 9781108703055
Published: 11 Mar 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Weight: 483g
Pages: 358

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