With Napoleon out of the way William Pitt was able to form the Second Coalition with Russia and Austria. The Russian army drove the French out of North Italy, and the king of Naples effected a counterrevolution in the South with the support of Horatio Nelson’s fleet. In the autumn of 1798 Napoleon left his […]
In the 1790′s, the wars of the French Revolution merged into the Napoleonic Wars, as Napoleon Bonaparte took over the French revolutionary government. At first the war did not go well for Britain. The First Coalition with Prussia, Austria, and Russia against the French collapsed in 1796, and in 1797 Britain was beset by […]
Ireland had been more affected by the French Revolution than, perhaps, any other country in Europe. Some of the Irish united under the leadership of Wolfe Tone and began to demand independence for Ireland. They formed an organization known as the United Irishmen.
