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Robespierre transformed the French army by replacing noble officers with young revolutionary men from the provinces.
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French Army
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...a meritocracy. Okay. So before, like every army, most of the French army, the officers, the generals, were of nobility that were appointed by..."
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"...a meritocracy. Okay. So before, like every army, most of the French army, the officers, the generals, were of nobility that were appointed by..."
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"Napoleon, by the age of 25, is a general. And that's unheard of at Europe at this time. But it's not just Napoleon, it's..."
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"...who is this French mystic, a teenager girl who leads the French armies to victory against the British and their allies. All right? During..."
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"...that we discussed. So when Louis XVI was in charge, the French army had a lot of problems. The first problem was you had..."
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"So as you can see, because of conscription, the French army is, is increasing, and that forces the other armies of Europe to increase..."
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"...Austrians are just bulldozing the French. Napoleon is safe because, the French army is able to come in and save them, okay? So Napoleon..."
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"...to be invaded. There's still Austria around. And so now the French army, it is overextended, and people have lost their revolutionary fever, okay?..."
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Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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Napoleon looks like the genius of the French Revolution because he gives history its most cinematic image: speed, war, destiny, empire.
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