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It was the final action of Napoleon's Italian campaign of 1796-1797 before the War of the First Coalition formally ended in October. In 1796, the young general Napoleon had been sent by the newly formed French Republic to confront Austria, as part of the Italian front of the French Revolutionary Wars. He chose to go through Venice, which was ...
General Bonaparte during the Italian campaign in 1797 Napoleon 's invasion of Northern Italy caused disorder in the Papal States . Under the Treaty of Tolentino , Pope Pius VI was forced to cede the Romagna region to the newly founded Cisalpine Republic , and recognize Joseph Bonaparte as the ambassador to Rome . [ 5 ]
In February 1797 the Directory, given the developments in Italy, changed its strategy by assigning men and resources to Napoleon to the detriment of the German front, placing hopes of a happy end to the war in the Corsican general. [72]
The Battle of Tarvis was fought during 21–23 March 1797 near present-day Tarvisio in far northeast Italy, about 12 kilometres (7 mi) west-by-southwest of the three-border conjunction with Austria and Slovenia, and was the final battle before the end of the War of the First Coalition.
Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars. New York: Macmillan, 1979. ISBN 0-02-523670-9; Fiebeger, G. J. The Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte of 1796-1797. West Point, NY: U.S. Military Academy Printing Office, 1911. Nafziger, George F. "French & Austrian Forces Battle of Rivoli 14 January 1797." 1996. Accessed April 30, 2018.
The Anconine Republic (Italian: Repubblica Anconitana) was a revolutionary municipality formed on 19 November 1797. It came about after a French victory at Ancona in February 1797, and the consequent occupation of the city. [2] It existed in the region of Marche, with Ancona serving as its capital.
Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity. Major conflicts of this era include the Italian Wars and Thirty Years' War in Europe, the Kongo Civil War in Africa, the Qing conquest of the Ming in Asia, the Spanish conquest of Peru in South America, and the American ...
The Veronese Easter (Italian: Pasque Veronesi, or singular Pasqua Veronese; French: Pâques véronaises) [2] was a rebellion during the Italian campaign of 1797, in which inhabitants of Verona and the surrounding areas revolted against the French occupying forces under Antoine Balland, while Napoleon Bonaparte (the French supreme commander in the Italian campaign) was fighting in Austria.