Spread of War and Wartime Control
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- Revolutionary War and Attempts to establish Wartime Control
- Spread of the Revolution-ary War
- It had gone well at the end of 92, by early 93 when the First Coalition was formed, FR were attacked on all sides.
- First Coalition Members:
- Austria
- Prussia
- Sardinia
- Spain
- Sardinia
- First Coalition Members:
- It had gone well at the end of 92, by early 93 when the First Coalition was formed, FR were attacked on all sides.
- Attempts to establish Wartime Control
- Committee of Public Safety (CPS)
- Co-oridanted war effort, after Dumouriez defected. Its 9 members were elected monthly by the NC.
- Function:
- meet in secret
- supervise activities of ministers and agents of gov
- Dispatched representatives on mission, for this.
- 84 generals killed. Distrust due to Lafayette and Dumouriez.
- report to NC weekly
- pass decrees collectively relation to 'general defense, external and internal'
- Carnot: 23rd August, decree of the levee en mass; conscription.
- It was a war cabinet dominated by Dantion. Robespierre refused to be elected thinking it had little influence.
- Committee of General Security (CGS)
- Composed of 12 deputies.
- Function:
- oversee state security, including police
- prosecute foreign agents and counterfeiters of assignats
- report regularly to the NC
- Committee of Public Safety (CPS)
- Rising in the Vendee
- Introduction of conscription in March 1793 triggered a revolt. From its small beginnings in riots and guerilla warfare, it escalated into open war. 20,000 rebels controlled the Vendee and had sacked several cities.
- Rebels were motivated by:
- Royalism
- Resistance to conscription
- Loyalty to the Catholic Church
- Local loyalties
- Rebels were motivated by:
- CPS viewed defeating the rebels crucial. Extra troops deployed, rebel armies were defeated nd thousands imprisoned. 8,700 executed. Many guillotined, shot or drowned in the River Loire.
- The brutality ensured that guerrilla attacks and scorched earth reprisals continued into 1794. By the end, as many as 20,000 died.
- Introduction of conscription in March 1793 triggered a revolt. From its small beginnings in riots and guerilla warfare, it escalated into open war. 20,000 rebels controlled the Vendee and had sacked several cities.
- Spread of the Revolution-ary War
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