War for the Masses

Sister Republics

Background Reading
Censer and Hunt, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, pp. 139-149.

Discussion: War and the Nation (28 and 30 March 2011)
Declaration of War (April 1792), on-line.

Decree for Proclaiming the Liberty and Sovereignty of all Peoples (15 December 1792), on-line.

Proclamation of 23 fructidor Year V (Sept. 9, 1797), on-line.

Law on British Products (10 brumaire Year V/ 31 Oct. 1796); on-line.

Bonaparte's speeches to the Army in Italy; here and here.

Bonaparte's Statement upon becoming Consul (19 brumaire Year VIII/Nov. 10, 1799), on-line.

Further Reading
David A. Bell, The First Total War (2007).

Geoffrey Best, War and Society in Revolutionary Europe (1998).

T. C. W. Blanning, The Revolutionary Wars (1996).

Alan Forrest, Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and the Empire (2002).

Gunther Rotenberg, The Art of Warfare in the Age of Napoleon (1978).

Stuart Woolf, Napoleon's Integration of Europe (1993).

Jacques Louis David, "Portrait of General Napoleon Bonaparte" (1797)--link to site full of
Napoleonic Literature


K. F. Schinkel, Medieval City on a River (1815); link to Johann Gottlieb Fichte, "Thirteenth Address," Addresses to the German Nation (1808)