The Lion at Dawn: Forging British Strategy in the Age of the French Revolution, 1783-1797 Volume 75 - Paperbackby Nathaniel Jarrett (Author) In February 1793, in the wake of the War of American Independence and one year after British prime minister William Pitt the Younger had predicted fifteen years of peace, the National Convention of Revolutionary France declared war on Great Britain and the Netherlands. France thus initiated nearly a quarter century of armed conflict with Britain. During this fraught and still contested period, historian Nathaniel Jarrett