Excerpt from French Revolutionary Generals
The war which the French Revolution had rendered almost inevitable, was actually declared in April, 1792. The despotisms of Europe could not tolerate the establishment of a new democracy in their midst. All absolute monarchs dreaded the extension of revolutionary ideas through their dominions. Some had special reasons for taking up arms against France. Prussia in particular hungered for more territory, and hoped to arrange with Austria for the further plunder of Poland. The Emperor of Austria was more pacifically disposed, and would still have left diplomacy to settle the quarrel. But the quixotic Gustavus III. of Sweden was eager for the fray, and Catherine of Russia, ever bent upon aggrandisement, promised him material help to further her own wily views. The proximate cause of war, however, was the congregation of the French emigres upon the frontier. Their presence especially in the cities of Treves and Coblentz, to the number of twelve or fifteen thousand, was a circumstance of alarm and annoyance to the revolutionary Government.
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