Anglo-Russian Military Cooperation in the Year of 1799: Based on the Materials from the «Journal of the Dutch Expedition» by I. Fiodorov

Abstract

For centuries England and Russia most often acted as antagonists during major military conflicts. Only three times in the century-long history of relations were they military-political allies and partners: in the late 18th and early 19th centuries during the First and Second World Wars. In this article, based on the analysis of the «Journal of the Dutch Expedition» by Ivan Fiodorov – a document stored in the archives of the Federal Institute of the Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, which had never before been involved by historians, an attempt is made to characterize (based on the text of this document) Anglo-Russian military cooperation in the years of the Second Coalition war against Republican France, an important element of which was so-called «Secret Expedition» in the autumn of 1799 to Holland in which both English and Russian troops took part.