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| 1785 |
| | | Napoleon graduates from his military college and is commissioned in an artillery regiment | |
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| 1791 |
| | | The Ordnance Survey is founded in Britain, to make detailed maps of the country for military purposes | |
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| 1792 |
| | | France declares war on the Austrian emperor, an event that plunges Europe into more than 20 years of conflict | |
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| 1792 |
| | | A French revolutionary army defeats the Austrians and Prussians at Valmy, and thus saves Paris from attack | |
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| 1792 |
| | | After their success at Valmy, French republican armies overrun much of the Austrian Netherlands | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Britain joins other European nations in war against France, mainly in naval engagements in the West Indies and Atlantic | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Corsica and Napoleon's family flees to France | |
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| 1793 |
| | | France becomes the first nation to attempt national conscription, calling up bachelors between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five | |
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| 1795 |
| | | With the Dutch entering the war on the side of the French, Britain seizes their valuable Cape colony in South Africa | |
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| 1796 |
| | | Napoleon Bonaparte takes command of the French army of Italy, with astonishingly successful results | |
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