18th century total war

Chapter 129 Marseille Legion (Subscription plus third update)
"The son who goes to the French country,
The hour of glory has come!

Tyranny oppresses us,

The land of the motherland groans in pain!
The land of the motherland is groaning in pain!
You can see that fierce soldier,

Killing people everywhere,

from your arms,

Take the lives of your wife and children!

............"

The Place de la Revolution in Paris, which is the original Louis XV ordered the construction of the 'Louis XV Square' to demonstrate his supremacy.

Of course, after the Paris Revolution broke out, the name of this square was changed to Revolution Square (the Place de la Concorde in later generations).

At this time, the square was full of young soldiers wearing blue military uniforms, holding high the red, white and blue tricolor flags, and wearing black three-cornered hats with revolutionary cap badges inlaid on them.

It's really very young, just like this army, it was established less than half a year ago!
Most of them are underage soldiers, which is a proper underage in the 21st century!

But in France of this era, there are already passionate young people who can carry muskets and prepare to embark on the battlefield...

Seeing these young people singing "Marseille March" in unison with high spirits, you can know that they are fundamentally different from the soldiers who were forced to recruit in the past. They voluntarily joined this new army led by Jacobin revolutionaries who completely banned noble officers. !

As the second largest city in France at this time, Marseille is naturally the city of the French revolution second only to Paris in terms of revolutionary atmosphere.

As soon as the news of the victory of the revolution in Paris spread, the Maasai took up arms and drove out the Duke who ruled over them!
At that time, Arnault, the leader who led the Maasai to seize the Marseille fortress and scare away the Duke, was also reused by Jacobin at this time, and became the general of the new Maasai army with the Maasai as the main body.

The predecessor of this Marseille Legion was the Marseille Volunteer Army who armed into Paris to support the revolution!
It is now rectified.

After a "Marseille March" was sung, representatives sent by the Paris Commune personally awarded the flag of the Marseille Legion to Arnaud.

It is not a military flag with the characteristics of the times. The current revolutionary army flags are all red, white and blue tricolor flags, which has banned the various military flag styles of the previous French kings.

Military uniforms also generally use blue uniforms and white military trousers. It is said that the main reason is that it is cheap. France’s colonies in Central America produced a kind of indigo dye, which is the reason why the French army with financial difficulties after the revolution generally adopted blue military uniforms. Important source!
Except for the British Empire, the colonies of this era do not have the characteristics of political independence. Basically, whoever is in power in the local area will obey their orders...

Of course, the British Empire is an exception, not only because the colonies of the British Empire are too vast, but also has a lot to do with the colonial autonomy policy of the British Empire.

The independence of the United States is, to put it bluntly, a hidden danger left by the colonial autonomy policy of the British Empire!
However, the colonial self-government policy of the British Empire also greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the local people to immigrate, making the British Empire a rising star in colonial expansion, and it is only now that the British Empire has a territory that covers most of the world!

It can be said that the colonial self-government policy has both advantages and disadvantages.

However, other European countries did not learn from the British. The colonial policies they adopted were all directly under the local central government, which made the colonies of other European countries develop slowly (mainly because immigrants were unwilling to go there), but their control over the colonies exceeded that of the United Kingdom. government.

Therefore, after the victory of the Paris Revolution, the overseas colonies fell into the embrace of the new government without hesitation. In the eyes of the French overseas colonial government, whoever became the master of Paris was their master.

France's overseas colonies don't have any industrial and commercial foundations. They don't dare to rebel at all, and lose the support and blood transfusion of the mainland. Of course, they can't beat the army of the French mainland...

During this period, the military strength of the Continental Continental Army compared with the strength of the colonial army was as big as the gap between the regular army and the native savages. There was no comparison between the two sides!
The real improvement of the combat effectiveness of the colonial army needs to wait until the era before World War I.

At the same time as the formation of the Legion of Marseilles, there was a knock on the door of the office of the leader of the Girondists, Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Valville.

After Brissot's supporters came in, they immediately reported to Brissot the move of the Paris Commune to set up the Legion of Marseilles!
While Brisso was angry, he was also helpless.

This is not only because the Marseille Legion was established to fight against Li Wei's Black Dragon Army, but more importantly, with the full support and participation of the Jacobin radicals, the Paris Commune has become a veritable Paris' second government. '!
The Paris Commune was first established to protect the fruits of the Paris Revolution, and was born from the bottom of the population and less wealthy intellectuals, middle-class groups, through an equal electoral system.

This is actually the ideal new government in the minds of the Paris citizens who launched the Revolution with blood!
Candidates are not screened according to the tax amount, as long as they are legal French citizens, everyone has the right to participate in the election and the right to vote!
During the time when the constitutional monarchy was in power, the existence of the Paris Commune was a natural opposition to the new government.

It's just that the people in the Paris Commune are all elected by the citizens of Paris and have unparalleled influence in the city of Paris. Robespierre and others have participated in the Paris Commune!
In addition, the Paris Commune controls the National Guard composed of a large number of Paris citizens. After the Paris Revolution, the government was unable to confiscate the guns hidden by the people.

This has allowed the Paris Commune, a government agency that sings against the government, to exist all the time. Now that the Jacobin radicals are taking shape, the Paris Commune has even publicly formed a legion and rushed to the front!
This is righteousness, even Brissot can't object, after all, suppressing Li Wei and his Black Dragon Legion is the political correctness of Paris today!

As for the financial expenditure for the establishment of the Marseille Legion, of course it is the state!
The Paris Commune is only responsible for the contribution, and the issue of money still needs to be taken care of by the state power under Brissot.

what?
You don't want to pay?
Citizens of Paris, traitors have appeared, take up arms and explode!

This is the situation Brissot is facing today!
Even if he is the leader of the ruling party, he has to coax these Parisians who have guns at home.

It's not that the combat effectiveness of the armed citizens of Paris is beyond the charts. How strong is a group of gun lovers who have not undergone military training for a few days?
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