Campaigns of 1795 in the French Revolutionary Wars

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The

First coalition
.

The year opened with French forces in the process of attacking the Dutch Republic in the middle of winter.[1] The Dutch people rallied to the French call and started the Batavian Revolution. City after city was occupied by the French. The Dutch fleet was captured, and the stadtholder William V fled to be replaced by a popular Batavian Republic, which supported the revolutionary cause and signed the Treaty of The Hague on 16 May 1795, ceding the territories of North Brabant and Maastricht to France.

With the Netherlands falling, Prussia also decided to leave the coalition, signing the Peace of Basel on 6 April, ceding the west bank of the Rhine to France.[2] This freed Prussia to finish the occupation of Poland.

The French army in Spain advanced, advancing in

Piedmont
.

Meanwhile,

Napoleon Bonaparte's garrison used cannon to fire grapeshot into the attacking mob (which led to the establishment of the Directory).[3]

On the

Pichegru, negotiating with the exiled Royalists, betrayed his army and forced the evacuation of Mannheim and the failure of the siege of Mainz by Jourdan
. This was a moderate setback to the position of the French.

In northern Italy victory at the Battle of Loano in November gave France access to the Italian peninsula.

Citations

  1. ^ Popkin, 2019. p. 433.
  2. ^ a b Popkin, 2019, p. 435.
  3. ^ Popkin, 2019, pp. 446-447.

References

  • Popkin, Jeremy D. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 2019. .

See also

Preceded by French Revolutionary Wars
1795
Succeeded by