Revolutionary Wars

plural noun

1. the series of wars (1792–1802) fought against Revolutionary France by a combination of other powers, esp Britain, Austria, and Prussia

Example Sentences

Someone had always wrestled a bear to the ground to save the family or fought in the Revolutionary Wars—all of that.

From The Daily Beast

It shifts in time from the French revolutionary wars to the massacre of Mexican students in 1968.

From The Daily Beast

Jean Lannes had already had a taste of the soldier's life before the outbreak of the revolutionary wars.

From Project Gutenberg

If the devastation attending the revolutionary wars of Saint Domingo was great, it was repaired with singular rapidity.

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The English society which I have endeavoured to characterise was now to be thrown into the vortex of the revolutionary wars.

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Massena was forty-one when he defeated Korsakoff, and he was a veteran soldier when the Revolutionary wars began.

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(The antecedents of the battle are described under French Revolutionary Wars).

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