ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the period of the First Coalition, formed in 1792-93 to counteract the revolutionary disturbances in France and Poland, closed in the mid-decade with the revolution still alive in France but killed off in Eastern Europe. The Polish Revolution remained entirely distinct from the French. The Counterrevolution represented more international collaboration. The Poles, it must also be noted, were the only people in Europe, in this revolutionary decade, who undertook a revolution without French military assistance, and even without the promise of it that the United Irish had. Since the attempted Polish Revolution was simultaneous with the Revolutionary Government in France, preceding the fall of Robespierre, the Polish Jacobins looked upon the Terror and upon Robespierre with favor and produced expressions of civic excitement like those of the Year II in France.
