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French
Revolutionary Wars Timeline:
1797
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French Revolutionary Wars
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January 14, 1797
Battle of Rivoli.
Part of the Italian Campaign.
Bonaparte's victory over the Austrians.
January 29, 1797
In Gibraltar, British Horatio Nelson gets news that the Spanish
fleet is sailing direction Cadiz.
February 2, 1797
The Siege of Mantua ends. It had
begun on June 4, 1796. Part of the Italian Campaign.
Bonaparte's victory over the Austrians.
February 14, 1797
Battle of St Vincent.
British victory off the Cape of St.
Vincent. Defeat of the
Spanish fleet. Nelson is on the HMS Captain.
February 18, 1797
From Brest in Brittany, the French send another invasion force
direction British Isles. The four vessels will land in Wales on
February 22, 1797.
February 19, 1797
Treaty of Tolentino, or Peace of
Tolentino, between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VI.
February 22, 1797
A small French invasion force of 1,200 men, led by
Jean-Joseph Castagnier and
William Tate, lands near
Fishguard Bay. Their mission was to reach Bristol and to wreak
havoc. The ships had started their journey on February 18, 1797.
This event is sometimes referred to as
the Battle of
Fishguard.
The French will
surrender on February 24, 1797.
Here is the map
Map Location Fishguard,
Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
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February 24, 1797
The French landing near Fishguard ends in the unconditional
surrender of the invaders to John Campbell,
the Baron Cawdor, who lived just around the corner at
Stackpole Court.
March 4, 1797
It's Saturday and the second president of the United States,
John
Adams, delivers his
Inaugural Address.
April 17, 1797
Treaty
of Leoben.
Peace between Austria and France. The
armistice is concluded with Napoleon
only a hundred miles from Vienna
itself. This is a preliminary
treaty.
April 18, 1797
French
General Hoch defeats the Austrians,
led by
Franz von Werneck, at the
Battle of Neuwied.
May 27, 1797
François Noël Babeuf
(communist revolutionary) is
guillotined.
June 15, 1797
The
Ligurian Republic is set up.
July 9, 1797
Napoleon creates the
Cisalpine Republic,
which will be confirmed by the
Austrians with the Treaty of
Campo Formio in October 1797.
July 23, 1797
The new French Defense Minister is
Barthelemy-Louis-Joseph Scherer.
He succeeds Claude Petiet.
September 4, 1797
Coup d'état of 18 Fructidor, year V.
Encouraged by
Napoleon, the
Directory
eliminates the royalists from the government.
Carnot
flees the country and settles at Nuremberg,
Germany.
September 19, 1797
Lafayette and his family is
released from his Austrian prison. He will go to Holland for two
years, before returning to France.
September 29, 1797
The
Army of Germany is created by
merging the
Army of Sambre and Meuse with
the
Army of Rhine and Moselle.
Commander: Augereau.
October 11, 1797
Battle of Camperdown.
Defeat of the Dutch (Batavian Republic) fleet.
October 17, 1797
Peace of Campo Formio.
Austria is forced to agree to the French
possession of Belgium, the extension of the
French eastern frontier to the Rhine, and
the transformation of northern Italy into a
French dependency.
This is the end of the
War
of the First Coalition. France won.
Here is the map:
Central
Europe after the Peace of Basel (1795)
and of
Campo Formio (1797)
October 26, 1797
Creation of the
Army of
England (Armée d'Angleterre). Commander:
Bonaparte.
Desaix is commander
(temp) while Bonaparte is on a diplomatic mission.
December 9, 1797
Congress of Peace at Rastatt
(Rastatter Friedenskongress)
The French had taken the lands on
the left bank of the Rhine River. The Congress was
convened in order to negotiate recompense for the German
princes who lost these lands. These negotiations,
however, will be unsuccessful.
The participants:
Negotiating for the
Austrians are Metternich
Sr.,
Metternich
Jr., and
Count Ludwig von Lehrbach.
Imperial
Plenipotentiary for the Kingdom of Hungary and
Bohemia: Count Ludwig
Cobenzl.
Representative of
the Swabian Counts: Count
de Sickingen.
The French
ministers were Bonnier
d'Arco and John
Count de Treiliard. Bonaparte had left
Rastatt before negotiations began.
This congress formally
opened on January 19, 1798. It will last
until April 23, 1799.
Also on December
9, 1797:
The
Army of Germany
is split into the
Army of Mainz
and the
Army of the Rhine.
The Army of Mainz (Mayence) is led by
General Hatry.
The Army of the Rhine is led by
General D'Augereau.
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