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When the market leaders of the France Revolution executed Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in 1793, they sent a chilling communication to the hereditary ruling orders in Europe. Believing that monarchy everywhere presented a risk to democratic rule in France, the market leaders of the revolution declared conflict on Western european aristocracies, including those of Great Britain. For more than twenty years thereafter, France and Great britain waged a protracted conflict that finished in British win. In Titan, William R. Nester offers a deeply informed and thoroughly attractive narrative of how Great britain accomplished this remarkable feat. Between 1789 and 1815, English market leaders devised, funded, and led seven coalitions against the brand new and Napoleonic government authorities of France. In each organization, statesmen and generals searched for order amid a sophisticated welter of bureaucratic, political, economic, psychological, scientific, and international causes. The interplay of people and events, the importance of conjunctures and contingency, the significance of Britain's island persona and resources: all enter into play in Nester's exploration of the skill of British armed forces diplomacy. The result is a comprehensive and insightful bank account of the efforts of statesmen and generals to master the skill of vitality in a sophisticated fight for empire.
