What impact did public opinion have on wars?
- Created by: Lewis
- Created on: 13-12-12 09:24
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- Civillians and war
- Leaders
- In 1814, after 25 years of revolution and invasion, the principle interests of the European governing classes was to prevent the Napoleonic experience from happening again.
- They aimed to do this by restoring and maintaining the political and social balance which had kept c18th Europe in a state of balance.
- If military effectiveness on a Napoleonic scale depended on the revolutionary change in society, this was a price that the monarchs of the Restoration were not prepared to pay.
- As a result, for half a century armies reverted as far as possible to a C18th pattern of aristocratic officers and long-serving professional troops.
- If military effectiveness on a Napoleonic scale depended on the revolutionary change in society, this was a price that the monarchs of the Restoration were not prepared to pay.
- They aimed to do this by restoring and maintaining the political and social balance which had kept c18th Europe in a state of balance.
- In 1814, after 25 years of revolution and invasion, the principle interests of the European governing classes was to prevent the Napoleonic experience from happening again.
- Leaders
- If military effectiveness on a Napoleonic scale depended on the revolutionary change in society, this was a price that the monarchs of the Restoration were not prepared to pay.
- As a result, for half a century armies reverted as far as possible to a C18th pattern of aristocratic officers and long-serving professional troops.
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