YOUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE NAPOLEONIC WARS ORIGINS OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS
In the closing months of the 18th century, the French Revolution – by this stage a decade old – was not in good health. Stymied by ongoing conflict with various coalitions of other European powers in the French Revolutionary Wars, the new republic lumbered from crisis to crisis. The country's economy was listing and civil disorder was widespread.
Profound political turmoil fuelled France's problems. After the First French Republic was proclaimed in September 1792, France was ruled by an
