Do zbraně, občané! - Bitvy a osudy válečníků X. 1789–1794 / Francouzská revoluce 1 – Kovařík Jiří (2024)

The tenth volume of the Battles and Fates of Warriors project covers the first and most tumultuous part of the French Revolution, from the fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, which marked the beginning, to the dramatic end of the Jacobin terror on a hot July day in 1794, known in the revolutionary calendar as the 9th of Thermidor in the second year of the Republic. These five years are filled with battles in which revolutionary France fought against Prussia, the Habsburgs, the British, and the Dutch for its very existence; Valmy, Jemmapes, Neerwinden, Hondschoote, Wattignies, and Fleurus gradually moved the war from French territory beyond its borders and paved the way for further victories... ***** However, the revolution was a bloody affair, fighting not only against external enemies but also against internal ones, primarily the uprising in Vendée, suppressed with unprecedented cruelty and depicted through the fates of Mr. de Charette, the most famous of the rebels, and Madame de Lescure, later Madame de La Rochejaquelein, who left behind gripping memories of the Vendée war. ***** The conclusion is equally bloody, with the dramatic end of Robespierre's terror on that 9th of Thermidor...