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Hopefully they don't get too good at this. It's rare that a revolutionary army can lay down its weapons after the war. The French thought it would be fun to "li
by tybris 15y ago
Hopefully they don't get too good at this. It's rare that a revolutionary army can lay down its weapons after the war. The French thought it would be fun to "liberate" the rest of Europe after their revolution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars
- Symmetry 15y agoThe French Revolution was rather more ideological than this revolution looks. And besides, the French had been making a regular habit of rampaging through Europe at that point, so the revolution just let them do it more intelligently and enthusiastically.
- ms4720 15y agowell America did it pretty well
- tybris 15y ago?
- ms4720 15y agoWell after the American Revolution was finished, we stopped. There was the whiskey rebellion but it was a small affair. ie after the revolution we actually got something better and stable. only one civil war in +200 yeas not a bad record.
- nasmorn 15y agoThe native americans would object to your theory. I think the only difference was that America was plenty big and the people killed there didn't survive in significant enough numbers in America today so their view of the whole affair doesn't concern many people nowadays.