>On 21 January 1793, the National Convention of France executed

>>2488238
Hello, my name is Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre

And Welcome to Jackass

>>2488267
That's honestly the only logical reason

>>2488238
>>2488273

Like most revolutionary and end-of-history ideologies (even though the term itself didn't exist then, the concept would not have been unfamiliar to the revolutionaries) the participants in the French Revolution believed their victory to be not just eventually inevitable, but assured right-the-hell-now.

So why not declare war on everyone who didn't immediately fall in line? Your cause was assured of victory by being Right.

File: IMG_9510.png (1MB, 1136x640px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1136x640px

>>2488293
So like Muslims and WW2 Japanese?

File: 1446460457217.jpg (718KB, 1692x2004px) Image search: [Google]

718KB, 1692x2004px

>>2488238
Thet declared war on the world, and won
A century later, Germany tried to pull the same shit but got BTFO

They were trying to liberate all peasants, regardless of nationality, from the chains of feudal tyranny.

What's wrong with that?

>Le YOLO

>>2488304
Literally everyone in that pic outside europe is irrelevant

Not saying it wasn't impressive

And guess what Anglos: they won
Vive la France!

>>2488304
Got cucked hard in 1814-1815 though

Prussians and Russians left their seed

>>2488304
Yeah, I'm a bong and even I'm willing to give it to the French in that respect.

Nicely done, old boy.

>>2488350
>Prussians and Russians left their seed

Prussian and Russian occupation of Paris lasted few months
Meanwhile, the French occupied most of Germany for two decades, fathering tons and tons of baguette children with German women

The French Revolutionary Army was made of peasants conscripts, but it was so fanatical that it made up for the lack of training

European professional armies were literally terrified by the French bayonet charges

>>2488297
yup, secular version of it
typical ''right side of history'' whig narrative

>>2488346
No one was debating that? you just wanna be angry at nothing

Sad desu

File: 0fbezxr.jpg (81KB, 411x372px) Image search: [Google]

81KB, 411x372px

>>2488370
>The French launched a bayonet charge, the ferocity and determination of which unnerved the units stationed behind the artillery. The British units began to waver before the French reached their lines and eventually turned in panic and fled the battlefield, abandoning the gunners and artillery.

>In the headlong flight of thousands of British soldiers, large quantities of guns and equipment were abandoned, among which was General Lake's personal luggage. Although not pursued a mile or two beyond Castlebar, the British did not stop until reaching Tuam, with some units fleeing as far as Athlone in the panic. The panic was such that only the arrival of Cornwallis at Athlone prevented further flight across the Shannon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Castlebar

My sides!

>>2488370
Conscription actually affected all classes (though of course, peasants constituting the vast majority of the population...)
I remember one quote from Wellington saying that this explained the quality of French troops while on the contrary his men were picked among «the scum of the earth».

18th century European armies tended to focus on following orders, drill, and doing everything in formation.

Soldiers at the time were not really trained to deal with large columns of angry, patriotic Frenchmen charging at them, out to water the fields with their blood.

>>2488238
Spain and France were only allied because Spain had a Bourbon on the throne. Otherwise, Spain and France were always fucking with each other.

>>2488238
The point of invading the Belgium and Netherlands at that point was to feed the people of France with the cereals, money, and other recources plundered from the enemy

>>2488455

>British """"""""bravery""""""""""

>>2488359
As an American.

>you stupid niggers we could have had enlightenment republicanism take over Europe all you had to do was rule the country according to a constitution you stupid faggots god damn it we never would have had the Soviet Union or Nazis you could have basically ended history all you had to do was follow the damn train

>>2488455
>>2488715
Iran tried to do the same in the 1980s during their war with Iraq. Needless to say, it didn't work.

>>2488238
Marquis de Sade was an elected high level official in the French revolution. A man who wrote about eating fecal matter and raping young girls. What they were thinking is autism too strong for even the hell of /mlp/ to contain.

On a sidenote, Wikipedia says that due to his writings of mutilation and torture, Mr. Sade is considered one of the first feminist writers who provided women a space.

>>2488293
We actually get terms like "Renaissance" and "Middle Ages" from the fetishization of the Classical World. A lot of Enlightenment thinkers believed that the Enlightenment would be the final age of Man.

>>2488806
Yes, the British are much less capable than Iraqi sand people it must be said

>>2488350
>Prussians and Russians left their seed

There is ni trace of them(R1A Haplogroup) in French genepool

>>2488801
>you could have basically ended history all you had to do was follow the damn train
>end of history

Yeah that worked so well when the cold war ended. Only idiots believe in end of history crap.

>>2488304
Then won by being the most populous state in Europe + Levee en masse

>>2490126
It helped, but this merely allowed them to match their enemies numbers, not to surpass them
So don't act like it explains everything

>>2490126
>most populous state in Europe

HRE wasn't the most populous back then? There's also Russia which isn't technically European but has a bigass population as well.

>>2488238
Louis was executed because he tried to flee the country and organise a counter-revolution. He tied their hands.

Once that occurred the revolutionaries then had no choice but to be at war with Europe because there was no doubt that the other European powers would wage war on France to reinstall another monarch.

>>2491312
Too bad HRE was not a state.

>>2488806
>>2489877
>implying that charging a bunch of muskets is the equivalent of charging a metric fuckton of static machineguns and tanks, poison gas, trenchs, barbed wire, mines, through a swamp, while also getting nailed by helicopters and modern massed artillery bombardment

Quality post guys, keep it up!

>France will never bring the light of enlightenment to the whole world
>Man will never feel the warmth of the Sun of Liberty in every corner of the world

It hurts so much

>>2488318
They led them into a tyranny of the bourgeoise, not very different from those feudal overloreds

>>2490126
>>2491312
Well, France had a population of 25 millions before the war
Russia had a population of 35 millions, but they didnt really join the war until 1798
Austria had a population of 23 millions, but when coupled with their possessions in Germany Italy and Belgium, it reached 51 millions
Spain and Prussia both had a population of 11 millions
Britain proper had 10 millions

France was outnumbered by more than twice if counting total population compared to its enemies, but thank to the Levee en Mass, French numbers on the battlefield were evenly matched with the coalition

>>2488370
Wow that's pathetic

What happened to France between 1814 and 1940?

>>2488238
Proto-Reds aren't anymore prone to thinking than Reds are.

File: German_skulls_Verdun_1916.jpg (220KB, 890x531px) Image search: [Google]

220KB, 890x531px

>>2491703
WW1

>>2491345
You're forgetting the population of Netherlands/parts of Italy/parts of North Europe.

Those were kind of meaningless players though

>>2491733
My highschool geography/politics teacher told me at Verdun he stumbled upon a cave/abode formed by artillery explosions full of skulls and weapons/uniforms back in the 90's.

>>2491703
The jews happened

>>2489987
History would be over if it weren't for (((them)))

>>2490126
>they won because of the things that made them win
Your point, Nigel?

Watch out guys, you're drawing the lindies out

>>2493405
He's simply dismissing the 'le French superman' meme.

File: _77721623_img_1483ss.jpg (61KB, 450x450px) Image search: [Google]

61KB, 450x450px

>>2488455
Holy fuck
So these are the "fearsome" redcoats that the movie The Patriot was all about

>>2488437
Hon hon hon mon amie Anglo, you sound un peu assmad! Les Français win again!

>listening to La Marseillaise while reading this thread
Anglo tears taste good tbqh

>>2493547
Meh
They taste like fish n' chips

>>2493547
>pas le chant du départ
Bons goûts mais un peu plébéien peh

>>2493547
>>2493514

There's literally no angry anglos in this thread

No one is debating France won here. Stop constantly feeling a victim.

>>2493514
Do French people really speak like this?

>>2493612
Yes, the French language has been dying for a few centuries now.

>>2493569
Anglo de culmal détecté

>>2493569
lol

>>2488267
I want to name my kid Maxmillion Robosphere.

>King constantly undermines the revolution and reforms
>King begs France to go to war because he thinks they will lose and he will be reinstated
>King tries to flee France but is caught
>Claims he was "going on a holiday"

The French gave him so many chances.

>>2493985
He really was an idiot. Reminds me of Nicky I.

>>2488267
fpbp

sorry for the /pol/ tier meme

>>2493985
Louis was an enlightened king, but he was stubborn. His biggest mistake was dismissing Necker, but at least, he should've supported Calonne at the Convention.

>>2494416
He was a cuck

>>2488806
>Electrified swamps

>>2488861
Based Napoleon put de Sade in jail though.

Fuck the revolution.