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on building a national identity for and suffrage throughout Europe.
the common folk, and therefore was At first, the French revolution was
able to muster large numbers of never destined to leave the French
soldiers in a short time based on borders. However, because of
volunteering and drafting, and these Napoleon, the ideas of the revolution
soldiers were ready to die for France spread throughout the empire, in
and Napoleon. This mustering of other words, all of Europe. Because
forces was a competitive edge that no of this widespread diffusion of
other country at the time possessed. French revolutionary ideas in
He was also very innovative at using Europe, the Netherlands, The
artillery and changed the use and Swiss and countless other countries
effectiveness of artillery in battles started to face a civilian group that
that would last until World War 1. constantly wanted better living
He also helped promote democracy standards as well as increased say in
