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Wars of the French Revolution

Wars of the French Revolution

Extracted from the Wikipedia article French Revolutionary Wars.

Further reading

  • Atkinson, Charles Francis; Hannay, David McDowall (1911). "French Revolutionary Wars" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 171–205.
  • Attar, Frank, (in French)La Révolution française déclare la guerre à l'Europe. ISBN 
  • Attar, Frank, (in French)Aux armes citoyens ! Naissance et fonctions du bellicisme révolutionnaire. ISBN 
  • Bell, David A. The first total war: Napoleon's Europe and the birth of warfare as we know it (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014).
  • Bertaud, Jean-Paul. The Army of the French Revolution: From Citizen-Soldiers to Instrument of Power (1988), a major French study
  • Blaufarb, Rafe. The French army 1750–1820: Careers, talent, merit (Manchester University Press, 2021).
  • Bryant, Arthur. Years of Endurance 1793–1802 (1942); on Britain
  • Bryant, Arthur. Years of victory, 1802–1812 (1942); on Britain
  • Clausewitz, Carl von (2018). Napoleon's 1796 Italian Campaign. Trans and ed. Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 
  • Clausewitz, Carl von (2020). Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 1. Trans and ed. Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 
  • Clausewitz, Carl von (2021). The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon Returns: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 2. Trans and ed. Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 
  • Connelly, Owen. The wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1792–1815 (2006)
  • Crawley, C. W., ed. The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 9: War and Peace in an Age of Upheaval, 1793–1830 (1965), comprehensive global coverage by experts
  • Doughty, Robert, and Ira D. Gruber, eds. Warfare in the Western World: volume 1: Military operations from 1600 to 1871 (1996) pp. 173–94
  • Dupuy, Trevor N. and Dupuy, R. Ernest. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History (2nd ed. 1970) pp. 678–93
  • Esdaile, Charles. The French Wars 1792–1815 (2002) 113pp excerpt and text search, ch 1
  • Forrest, Alan. Soldiers of the French Revolution (1989)
  • Forrest, Alan. "French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802)" in Gordon Martel, ed. The Encyclopedia of War (2012).
  • Forrest, Alan. Conscripts and Deserters: The Army and French Society During the Revolution and Empire (1989)
  • Forrest, Alan. Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire (2002)
  • Fremont-Barnes, Gregory. The French Revolutionary Wars (Essential Histories) (2013) excerpt and text search
  • Fremont-Barnes, Gregory, ed. The Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History (3 vol. 2006)
  • Gardiner, Robert. Fleet Battle And Blockade: The French Revolutionary War 1793–1797 (2006), naval excerpt and text search
  • Griffith, Paddy. The Art of War of Revolutionary France, 1789–1802 (1998) excerpt and text search; military topics, but not a battle history
  • Knight, Roger. Britain Against Napoleon: The Organisation of Victory, 1793–1815 (2013)
  • Lavery, Brian. Nelson's Navy, Revised and Updated: The Ships, Men, and Organization, 1793–1815 (2nd ed. 2012)
  • Lynn, John A.The Bayonets of the Republic: Motivation And Tactics in the Army of Revolutionary France, 1791–94 (1984)
  • Roberts, Andrew. Napoleon (2014), a major biography
  • Rodger, A.B. The War of the Second Coalition: 1798 to 1801, a strategic commentary (1964)
  • Ross, Steven T. Quest for Victory; French Military Strategy, 1792–1799 (1973)
  • Ross, Steven T. European Diplomatic History, 1789–1815: France Against Europe (1969)
  • Rothenberg, Gunther E. (1982). Napoleon's Great Adversaries: The Archduke Charles and the Austrian Army 1792–1814.
  • Rothenberg, Gunther E. "The Origins, Causes, and Extension of the Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon", Journal of Interdisciplinary History (1988) 18#4 pp. 771–93 in JSTOR
  • Schroeder, Paul W.The Transformation of European Politics 1763–1848 (Oxford University Press, 1996); advanced diplomatic history; pp. 100–230
  • Schneid, Frederick C.: The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, European History Online, Mainz: Institute of European History, 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
  • Scott, Samuel F. From Yorktown to Valmy: The Transformation of the French Army in an Age of Revolution (University Press of Colorado, 1998)