222 Chapter Sixchange the last military residue of the revolution seemed safely
buried.^67 The other armies of Europe were already pillars of conser
vatism, and remained so throughout the nineteenth century. The same
was true of the only navy that mattered, the British.
Thus political revolution had been successfully turned back. Indus
trial revolution had yet to assail military routine and tradition. It began
to do so in the 1840s. Consideration of this transformation of Euro
pean ways of war will be the subject of the next chapters.
- Douglas Porch, Army and Revolution: France, 1815–1848 (London, 1974), pp.
138–39 and passim.