It was mostly negative. The Revolution sparked a military conflict that went on for the next several decades. The Terror appalled British society, and the Revolution was condemned best by Edmund Burke's book Reflections on the Revolution in France. However, there were sympathizers, among them Thomas Paine, who fled to revolutionary France in order to escape charges of sedition. But because Britain was a constitutional monarchy with a long history of conflict with France, the violence of the Revolution and later expansion under Napoleon made Britain officially an enemy. But there were Jacobin and other republican supporters of the Revolution within Britain, though they were marginalized.