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The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, beginning in 1792 and lasting until the Treaty of Amiens in 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European states. They are usually divided between the First Coalition (1792–1797) and the Second Coalition (1798–1801). Additionally, France was at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain continuously from 1793 to 1802.

Marked by French revolutionary fervour and military innovations, the campaigns saw the French Revolutionary Armies defeating a number of opposing coalitions and expanding French control to the Low Countries, Italy, and the Rhineland. The wars were of titanic proportions, mainly due to the application of modern mass conscription. (More...)