He fights not against a people, whose king he hopes to be, and against a cause, which he desires to conquer, but not to destroy.

Such was the state of the Duke of Brunswick's mind;--consulted by the king of Prussia, he advised this monarch to turn his forces to the Polish frontier and conquer provinces there, instead of principles in France.
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Dumouriez's plan was to separate, as much as possible, Prussia from Austria, in order to have but one enemy at a time to cope with; and the union of these two powers, natural and jealous rivals of each other, appeared to him so totally unnatural, that he flattered himself he could prevent or sever it.

The instinctive hatred of despotism for liberty, however, overthrew all his schemes.

Russia, through the ascendency of Catherine, forced Prussia and Austria to make common cause against the Revolution.

At Vienna, the young Emperor Francis I.made far greater preparations for war than for negotiation.