Woa thanks, good tldr. I never understood the revolution as causing the Napoleonic wars, and I had always gotten the idea that Napolean waged his wars for the

Woa thanks, good tldr. I never understood the revolution as causing the Napoleonic wars, and I had always gotten the idea that Napolean waged his wars for the much more mundane reason of an Emperor wanting to expand his borders, because ego. I never understood that so much of the revolution's ideas persisted into Napoleon's rule and conquest. Also I've always had a bit of a beef with people celebrating the French Revolution as some glorious victory of "the people" over their evil oppressors, without mentioning the Terror that followed. Maybe that's made me a bit blind to how much of the good parts persisted :-) I'll dig deeper, thanks!