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The young French general, and future ruler of France, Napoleon Bonaparte The fall of the ancient Republic of Venice was the result of a sequence of events that followed the French Revolution (Fall of the Bastille, 14 July 1789), and the subsequent French Revolutionary Wars that pitted the First French Republic against the monarchic powers of Europe, allied in the First Coalition (1792 ...
It remained the cathedral of Venice for a thousand years, until the City was occupied by Napoleon at the end of the eighteenth century. Doge Maurizio Galbaio appoints his sixteen-year-old nephew Christopher bishop of Olivolo , but when the Patriarch of Grado refuses to consecrate him a flotilla of ships is sent to attack Grado , and there the ...
The Republic of Venice, [a] officially the Most Serene Republic of Venice and traditionally known as La Serenìssima, [b] was a sovereign state and maritime republic with its capital in Venice. Founded, according to tradition, in 697 by Paolo Lucio Anafesto , over the course of its 1,100 years of history it established itself as one of the ...
In their initial talks, the Venetians demanded lands on both sides of the Adda river, which Louis considered excessive, while Venice rejected a French request for a subsidy of 100,000 ducats. Under a deal brokered by Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara , Venice was granted Cremona along with lands on the eastern bank of the Adda, and agreed to pay ...
Before the Allies could launch this assault the French, under tactical command of André Masséna, launched the Saorgio Offensive (April, 1794), which was planned by the army's artillery commander, General Napoleon Bonaparte. This two-pronged French offensive drove back the Allied force, despite their strong positions, and firmly captured the ...
The agreement did not improve the French situation because Moreau had still not yet gone on the offensive, and furthermor, revolts were developing in Tyrol and Venice. Minding these events, Napoleon obtained another five-day truce on 13 April, but on the 16th, without waiting for the plenipotentiary of the Directory, General Clarke, he put ...
Political map of Italy in the year 1789, showing the Ionian islands of the Republic of Venice in detail. Napoleon Bonaparte declared war against Venice on 3 May 1797. [54] The signing of the Treaty of Campo Formio, on 17 October 1797, marked the dissolution of the Republic of Venice and the sharing of its territories between France and Austria ...
Military conflict between Venice and Italy began in the early 9th century with the intervention of Charlemagne's son King Pepin of Italy into Venice, which resulted in a failed six-month siege. Venice first became a major military power in the 13th century during the Fourth Crusade , where Venetian troops participated in the successful siege ...