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The Lion at Dawn - Forging British Strategy in the Age of the French Revolution, 1783-1797 (Hardcover)
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The Lion at Dawn - Forging British Strategy in the Age of the French Revolution, 1783-1797 (Hardcover)
Series: Campaigns and Commanders Series
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In February 1793, in the wake of the War of American Independence
and one year after British prime minister William Pitt the Younger
had predicted fifteen years of peace, the National Convention of
Revolutionary France declared war on Great Britain and the
Netherlands. France thus initiated nearly a quarter century of
armed conflict with Britain. During this fraught and
still-contested period, historian Nathaniel Jarrett suggests, Pitt
and his ministers forged a diplomatic policy and military strategy
that envisioned an international system anticipating the Vienna
settlement of 1815. Examining Pitt's foreign policy from 1783 to
1797-the years before and during the War of the First Coalition
against Revolutionary France-Jarrett considers a question that has
long vexed historians: Did Pitt adhere to the "blue water" school,
imagining a globe-trotting navy, or did he favor engagement nearer
to shore and on the European Continent? And was this approach
grounded in precedent, or was it something new? While acknowledging
the complexities within this dichotomy, The Lion at Dawn argues
that the prime minister consistently subordinated colonial to
continental concerns and pursued a new vision rather than merely
honoring past glories. Deliberately, not simply in reaction to the
French Revolution, Pitt developed and pursued a grand strategy that
sought British security through a novel collective European
system-one ultimately realized by his successors in 1815. The Lion
at Dawn opens a critical new perspective on the emergence of modern
Britain and its empire and on its early effort to create a stable
and peaceful international system, an ideal debated to this day.
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