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Monster legends best epic9/26/2023 Battle of the PyramidsĪfter the uprising of 13 Vendémiaire, Napoleon took command of the Army of Italy, conquered most of Italy and the Low Countries, then spent a few months knocking Austria around, all in less than two years. It earned him national fame and won the revolution for the Republic. Napoleon, artillery officer that he was, brought cannons into the streets and used grapeshot to repel the Royalists, then chased them down in a slaughter. Napoleon, though down on his luck, came to Paris and was drafted into its defense by the commander of the city. With 25,000 enemy soldiers approaching, the leaders of the revolution knew they were in deep: Paris could only muster 5,000 defenders. In October 1795, a Royalist force, allied with a Coalition of European monarchies, began to march on Paris - and it looked like some Republican units might switch sides. The republic began to make a lot of enemies around France after Toulon, enemies who joined the Royalist cause. By 1795, Napoleon was a general in the republic's army, but both his future and that of the republic were not looking bright.
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