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# The Emergency Republic, 1792-1795: The Terror The National Convention met on September 20, 1792, and declared the beginning of a new era, Year I of the French Republic. It immediately proclaimed a new era. On September 20, French armies won a battle at Valmy, which had little direct tactical co...

# The Emergency Republic, 1792-1795: The Terror The National Convention met on September 20, 1792, and declared the beginning of a new era, Year I of the French Republic. It immediately proclaimed a new era. On September 20, French armies won a battle at Valmy, which had little direct tactical consequences, but it inspired the French armies and the French people. The Convention ordered French generals to dissolve old governments in occupied areas, confiscate property, abolish tithes, hunting rights and seigneurial dues, and establish provisional administrations. In the occupied territory, this lead to the spread of the revolution. Britain and the Dutch Republics prepared to resist, and Great Britain declared war on France on February 1, 1793. France captured the Netherlands, Savoy, and Nice; it also had much of the German Rhineland under its military government. Meanwhile, in Eastern Europe, Russia and Prussia partitioned Poland in January 1793. Austria was excluded from the second partition of Poland, and was anxious about its interests in Eastern Europe. The French Republic faced a war with Europe, saved by the weakness of the Coalition, whose land forces were small and the member countries were jealous of each other's interests. However, the Jacobins within the Convention were splitting. The Girondins, as the advanced revolutionary group, were no longer in the leading position; a new group, called the "Mountain", consisting of members from the provincial cities, rose.