French revolutionary armies relied on patriotic motive rather than Prussian discipline

Evidence

As the French Revolution was approaching, an already existing feeling of common citizenship was gaining more ground while a common psychology was diffusing among all Frenchmen. “France was becoming a nation or a patrie and ceasing to be a mere royaume.” As far as the military was concerned more and more people were gradually allowing themselves “to trust to something other than Prussian discipline for getting apt performance out of the troops … Were soldiers not also men? And who should fight better for his regiment, king or country than a man and a patriot who could feel loyalty and affection and who could fight for motives of love and belief, rather than from routine, roughness, and fear?” — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1362

Categorization

• QUESTION: Establishes the Napoleon comparison baseline: since Egyptian peasants lacked this patriotic psychology, the analogy implies motivation must have differed — the crux of the next section.
• XREF: connects to: Pre-national-state armies relied on pay and coercion rather than patriotism to hold together — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1333
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Pre-national-state armies relied on pay and coercion rather than patriotism to hold together — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1333