"Early Wars with Austria and Britain" Topic

"Napoleon's early wars with Austria and Britain confirmed the French dominance over Austria, failed to stop British dominance in the Mediterranean, and ended with a precarious peace broken only a year after signing the final treaty of the French Revolutionary Wars…"
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The War of the First Coalition (1792–1797) was the first attempt by the European monarchies to defeat the French First Republic. France declared war on the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria in April 1792 and the Kingdom of Prussia joined the Austrian side a few weeks later. A number of other European states, including Britain, joined the First Coalition over the course of the war.

The Prussians withdrew from the Coalition in order to pursue territorial ambitions in Poland.

Napoleon did not enter the war as the leader of the French army until 1796, although he faced the British forces at the 1793 Siege of Toulon, where he played a major role in crushing the royalist rebellion by expelling an English fleet and securing the valuable French harbor. Promoted to general in 1795, he was sent to the battlefields of the French Revolutionary Wars to fight the Austro-Piedmontese armies in Northern Italy the following year.

Napoleon was not the commander of the French army in 1796, but one of many army commanders and that in a secondary and neglected theater.

Napoleon was successful in a daring invasion of Italy, a victory that contributed to Austria's decision to sign the Treaty of Campo Formio, ceding Belgium to France and recognizing French control of the Rhineland and much of Italy. The ancient Republic of Venice was partitioned between Austria and France. This ended the War of the First Coalition, although Great Britain and France remained at war.
The Mediterranean campaign of 1798 was a series of major naval operations surrounding a French expeditionary force sent to Egypt under Napoleon Bonaparte that serves as a bridge between the War of the First Coalition and the War of the Second Coalition. The French Republic sought to capture Egypt as the first stage in an effort to threaten British India and thus force Great Britain to make peace. The campaign was initially Napoleon's success but he failed to stop the British dominance once it moved to Egypt.

Napoleon did not invade Italy in 1796 as the French Armee d'Italie was already in place. He took command and by his actions and campaigns turned a secondary theater into a major theater, finally compelling Austria to sue for peace in 1797.

In the end, the Austrians negotiated the Treaty of Lunéville, basically accepting the terms of the previous Treaty of Campo Formio. In Egypt, the Ottomans and British invaded and finally compelled the French to surrender after the fall of Cairo and Alexandria.In 1802, the British and French signed the Treaty of Amiens but the peace did not last long.

'In the end' Austria was defeated in Italy and Germany and the Revolutionary Wars were brought to a successful conclusion for France by the Treaties of Luneville and Amiens.

The British, after signing the Treaty of Amiens, began asserting other provisions, not in the treaty, be adhered to by France.

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