Diplomatic Correspondence and Secret Agreements of the Age of Revolution and Napoleon, 1700 to 1814

This group gathers the diplomatic correspondence and secret agreements of the age of revolution and Napoleon, 1700 to 1814. These are the diplomatic letters, notes, memoranda and papers through which governments and their ministers dealt with one another, often unseen by the public at the time. A document belongs here when its cited article gives a date inside this span for the document's own signing, adoption, issue or composition. It excludes documents dated earlier or later, which sit in the neighboring period groups of the same kind. The years 1700 to 1814 cover the Enlightenment, the wars of the eighteenth century, the American and French revolutions and the Napoleonic wars.