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As shown in the previous chapter, by upbringing and background Gustavus IV was destined, sooner or later, to come into conflict with the new revolutionary order in France. The likelihood of confrontation was heightened, rather than diminished by Napoleon’s accession to power in 1799, and, given the two men’s political prejudices and proud personalities, it was only a question of time before they took their respective countries to war with each other. In early 1804 a train of loosely connected events conspired to lead Sweden and France into war.
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Blanning. The French Revolutionary Wars: 1787–1802 (London, 1996). 111–12, 115–18, 126, 149, 155, 176–7, 241, 251–3, 256–8. Diaries: Malmesbury. 320–1; Fedorak. 224–5
Denis A. Bingham, A Selection from the Letters and Despatches of the first Napoleon, III vols (London, 1884) 62, 63, 64; Fouché. 180; Jackson. 35–6.
See Alan Palmer, Bernadotte (London, 1990) for Bernadotte’s involvement in the planned coup of 1804 against Napoleon.
For details and background to the coup and its links with the French anti-Napoleonic resistance see the excellent study by Elizabeth Sparrow, Secret Service: British Agents in France 1792–1815 (Woodbridge, 1999). Chapter 15 is of particular interest.
HECD. VII. 287, 302; Hauterive. 5, 13, 14; J.H. Rose, Gustavus IV and the Formation of the Third Coalition, Révue Napoliéonnie, II (Turin, 1909). 88.
Zawadzki. 36–60, 63–71, 73–7, 100–6; Janet M. Hartley, Alexander I (London, 1994). 58–64, 70–1
Alan Palmer, Alexander I (London, 1974). 82
Hugh Seton-Watson, The Russian Empire 1801–1917 (Oxford, 1967). 83–5.
Fremont. 95–7, 101; Malmesbury. 311–414; Schroeder. 234–5, 251–2, 259; Alan Palmer, Metternich (London, 1972). 34–7; See Rothenberg. 39–104.
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Jorgensen, C. (2004). The Road to War: The Creation of the Common Cause against Napoleon, March 1804–October 1805. In: The Anglo-Swedish Alliance Against Napoleonic France. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287747_2
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