I don't know anything about this battle. Saw this image on Veeky Forums. How can this even be possible?

>Hitler was a leftist
found the libertarian

Protip: most of those 'belligerents' did jack squat. Republicanism was brand new and the very idea of doing away with a monarch was a radical paradigm shift, so naturally like every vested power dogpiled against the idea.

The """"""Holy Roman Empire"""""", A-H Empire and Prussia were the only ones to give the frogs a run for their money, and the first French Republic nearly did get curb stomped. What made the difference was, really, just strong desire to defend the homeland (defensive wars tend to get like that) and fervent republican ideals among the cannon fodder soldiers.

that doesnt make sense
by the sheer man / resource difference it would be impossible to win a war or a battle or whatever without a very superior technology which is not the case
what was napoleon role on this war? thought he died in like 1800

The Levée en Masse meant the Republic could field a lot of soldiers and matches the Coalition forces in the field and the newborn patriotic zeal helped making up for their inexperience. Combine that with the introduction of functional meritocracy in the army alongside the emergence of a crop of talented commanders and it's a lot easier to understand.

so what? the whole 18-25 male population doesnt match the number of UK, HRE, prussia, ottoman, spain....

>by the sheer man / resource difference it would be impossible to win a war or a battle or whatever without a very superior technology which is not the case

The French relied on mass conscription (something the enemy monarchies couldnt do because they feared their people) and ended up having an army roughly the same size as professional the armies of all the coalition countries combined

They didn't have mass armies

Spain actually contributed a lot until they got BTFO
Brits also tried to invade from the Low Countries but got easily kicked from the continent Dunkirk style and then spent the rest of the war hiding on their island

Look at it that way:

The monarchies used professionnal armies, costly to manage. So they didn't have that many.

The French used conscripted citizens. A lot of them.

So the numbers weren't that disparate.

Don't look only at the population numbers, the First Republic was fighting a war a survival.

Only France could rely on mass conscription
The reactionary monarchies feared their people way too much to arm them like the French did

>by the sheer man / resource difference it would be impossible to win a war or a battle or whatever without a very superior technology which is not the case
Welcome to Veeky Forums

Actually, French artillery (technology and technique) was far more advanced than most of the First Republic's enemies of the time. They did have a bit of an edge in that regard, and artillery IS considered the very thing that made the difference in some key (existential) battles.

Calling yourself socialist doesn't make you socialist

Nazis took no action to democratize the German economy

The French Republic was the first state that its citizens were willing to die for. They knew that their loss would result in not just the humiliation of France, but the reassertion of feudal economy.

user, you need to stop looking at a map and assuming every single one of those countries contributed equally to the war with France. When you look at the major battles it's not "entire population of each alliance square off somewhere".

Just read the fucking wikipedia article.

Now wait a minute, why the fuck did USA go against Republican France?!

It didn't, numbnuts.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-War

Americans, seeing that France was at war with all Europe, decided it was a good moment to cancel the debt they owed to France (debt from the support during their Revolution)

Basically, they acted like fucking kikes and betrayed an ally when it needed them the most
They figured the French wouldnt do shit since they were already too busy fighting against all Europe, but at that point frogs didnt care about having one more enemy so they started sinking US ships

Because the US was founded by hypocrites

Young America was of the view that Euros should GTFO of all the Americas. Including the colonial French.

France had never really cared all that much about its North American colonies. Sugar islands in the Caribbean were it's only real (occasional) focus. The French empire wanted to get rich in India and the East Indies, but settled for South East Asia, and managed to get more of Africa than anyone else.

France probably had more solders than every belligerent nation, combined.

What... I just... what? You must be new to the concept of history...

Not more, but the levee en masse allowed them to reach roughly equal numbers with the coalition

>leftists
French revolutionaries were pretty conservative for today standards

Americans were ungrateful pussies

Imagine it this way:
France has 20 soldiers
Spain has 20 soldiers

Spain is fighting the war because of reasons of prestige. Spain has whole colonial empire to maintain. Spain knows that if they used their all 20 soldiers, it might economically kill them. So Spain only sends 5 soldiers.

France on the other hand is fighting for survival. It is attacked from all sides, and if it loses, it will be the end of everything. It doesn't care about economical situation, because this is more urgent. France sends her all 20 soldier to war.

See where i'm going?

Germans are right-wing

By the standards of their day they were almost communist-tier revolutionary.

Except Spain's involvement was as total as it could be and only ended when Spain gave up after losing the north of their country
It was the case for most of France's enemies

It wasn't total war since the reactionary monarchies couldnt take the risk of conscripting and thus arming their populations like France did, but all of them committed their professional militaries in full force, and only gave up after getting partially (Spain, Austria) or totally (Netherlands, most Italian states) invaded (or in Russia's case after the destruction of their army).

The only country that didnt get 100% involved and quited without really being defeated was Prussia

>what was napoleon role on this war?
First beating the shit out of the Italians and Austrians in Northern Italy, then beating the shit out of the Ottomans in Egypt, before finally being forced out by threat of Britain cutting them off. Him returning is what led to him becoming emperor.
>thought he died in like 1800
lolwut

See it as a gym.

France has been enlightened by Zyzz, Rippletoe and Scooby, but not only a bunch of gainz goblin in your social circle try to fuck you up (like Vendée), a fatty enabler, england, try to bully you for wanting to be healthy (to have freedom). Now england is fat and can't do shit by itself, so she just brainwash fatfucks (other kingdoms) on tumblr to take your gainz. But for the fatties (europe) just going at the gym for that isn't rewarding, even against payment (money from england) so they're not motivated into going to the gym and shame. Still, they're numerous and your body is in bad shape right now, you're about to lose. But the discovery of Veeky Forums (levee en masse + good rule of the country + nappy) gather your energy and you btfo the fatties.

Because he removed/killed all the leftists in his party in '34
>Rohm did nothing wrong

It's worth noting that the actual french member party of the first international was super into revanchism over alsace lorraine. At the least the german socialists engaged in some mental gymastics to justify their war support. That shows at least limited conviction in ones principles.

And that's probably the best way to measure them

they had this for their anthem
you cannot not win listening to this
youtube.com/watch?v=4K1q9Ntcr5g

Because monarchism is poison for the nation. They couldn't compete with the Based French Republic

They murdered and used our people as cannon fodder.

Revolutionnaries are subhumans and deserve hellfire.

In my country, Spain, our king literally invited the french troops to help France invade Portugal. They came, occupied the core cities and stayed. By the time the king and gov knew what was happening they all fled. The king even signed a document saying he was giving Spain to Napoleon if the french spared his life. He literally sold Spain for his life.

Because they were more motivated, more implied, and the citizens volountarily joined the army to save the Republic

God bless the French

The first and second coalitions didn't focus all their attention to Revolutionary France. They thought it would collapse on its own.
Prussia, Russia, and Austria were normally rivals to each other, and were occupied with the partition of Poland in 1792 and 1795. England didn't send land forces. The others were weak.
Also Napoleon.

French destroy their own country to bring civilization and enlightenment to all of mankind and make the world better, they did it again in 1914 then too exhausted to ww2 decide to surrend and let the Uk being more than jew:the nation.

Bullshit
Austria and many other great powers in the coalition were in full scale war with France, see Austria only gave up when the French iinvaded their homeland and neared Vienna

That happened long after you had lost fair and square in the War of the Pyreness though

tue-toi toi-même

The shittiest part, mind you.

>but at that point frogs didnt care about having one more enemy so they started sinking US ships
Holy shit how can one country be so based?