"The “Great Fear” in the United Kingdom, 1802-1805" Topic

"Long before the camp de Boulogne, the British Isles were the subject of invasion desires by the French government. Throughout the 18th century, schemes were devised for the invasion of the islands. For one of the last (just before the French Revolution in 1778-9), the celebrated turncoat Charles François Dumouriez had written a series of propositions for a descent upon England via the Isle of Wight. In 1778, Dumouriez remarked that England had 50,000 men in America and no more than 10,000 regular soldiers at home, the latter of which could only with great difficulty be concentrated. In his opinion the militia was a non-entity. His plan needed "two hundred coasters, 30 converted gun sloops that could transport 24 battalions, as well as a regiment of dragoons and eight companies of artillerymen"… "barely two hours would be needed to embark the men in Cherbourg, and with an evening departure in November on a falling tide, they could expect to reach the Isle of Wight with the rising tide." After rallying to Britain, Dumourriez in 1802 was to present the same plans [which he now called a Mémoire détaillé sur la défensive des Côtes, dont la Note historique est l'introduction nécessaire] to his Highness the Duke of York, expressing himself "happy if my experience could perhaps be useful to a great and good King, adored by his subjects, and to a nation full of energy and resources, and if I can contribute to saving even just one cottage of happy England."…"
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