Gunroom
Apr 15, 2020
2 minutes
From 1792 onwards, war with Revolutionary France created a deep-seated fear of French invasion in Britain. While the prospect of an enemy invader on home soil was bad enough, there was an additional political dimension at play here. The French were also godless revolutionaries who had not only guillotined their own king, but who also sought to attack the existing social order by the liberal application of
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