Shows how revolutionary France's war for liberty in the Rhineland was transformed into a war for conquest.

Jordan R. Hayworth is an Assistant Professor of Military and Security Studies at the United States Air Command and General Staff College, Alabama. He is a member of the Society for Military History and the Society for French Historical Studies. In 2016, he won the Society for Military History's Edward M. Coffman First Manuscript Prize.

1. The Ancien Régime; 2. The Brissotin crusade for war; 3. War, conquest, and disaster; 4. The organization of victory; 5. The Thermidorean republic; 6. The Directory's war; 7. A shattered army; 8. The generals' war; Conclusion.