As France's revolutionary armies won victories across the European continent, what was the French government's policy toward the newly “liberated” lands? A It set up a system of military occupation and forced the peoples in those lands to become subjects of the French state B It created semi-independent “sister republics” that were modeled on the new French republic C It set up French colonies in the annexed territories, sending large groups of French citizens to organize new settler communities there D It left the old government structures largely in place but forced the occupied territories to pay the cost of the war.