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1795. April. May. June. Three months in which the French make peace with Prussia and Holland… A British attempt to stoke up trouble in Brittany appears to get off to a good start… And John Jay’s deal with an old enemy divides opinion in the United States. This is episode 14 of the Napoleonic Quarterly – covering three months which sees the collapse of the First Coalition against the French and their Revolution…

[14:25] – Jordan R Hayworth, Assistant Professor of Military and Security Studies at the US Air Command and Staff College, on the peace treaties with Prussia and Holland which effectively ended the First Coalition

[33:44] – Mary Robinson, Associate Professor of History at the University of Lourdes, on an improbable attempt by British-backed French emigres to raise the Breton chouanerie against the Revolution

[50:36] – Josh Provan of @LandOfHistory on the Jay Treaty and the outcry it provoked in US domestic politics

Plus throughout Charles Esdaile and Alexander Mikaberidze offer their thoughts – and from [04:40] in particular lock horns about whether or not the Revolution really offered “nothing” to ordinary French people…