1st Coalition
- 1792-1797
- fought against revolting/ revolutionizing France, and many other European countries
- was the first major effort of multiple European monarchies to contain Revolutionary France
- France declared war on the Habsburg monarchy of Austria on April 20th 1792 and the kingdom of Prussia joined the Austrian side a few weeks later
Countries involved-first coalition: against france
- Habsburg Monarchy
- Holy Roman Empire
- Prussia (until 1795)
- great britain
- french royalists
- spain (until 1795)
- portugal
- these countries liked the idea of a monarchy
- opposing side:
- french republic
- spain (from 1796)
- batavian republic (from 1795)
- french satellite states
- polish legions (from 1795)
- opposing side:
1st coalition
- this war started off as france as the aggressor, even though many people assumed differently.
- at the beginning, france sufferent some defeats by other coutnries and some issues with loyalists (internal issues)
- their response was to increase the size of their army
- they made all men ages 18 to 25, "draftable" to fight in the war
france against the coalition
- however, the french were able to regroup and do much better fighting off the coalition
- a few countries quit fighting against france in 1795. (prussia and spain even switched sides)
- finally in 1797, great britian was the only country still fighting against france
- they quickly quit and france had prevailed
results of the war
- french victory
- treaty of campo formio
- survival of the french republic
- french annexation of the austrian netherlands
- several french client republic established (sister countries)
- hostilities resume in 1798 with the fomation of a second coalition against france
treaty of Campo Formio
- with the treaty of camp formio, the holy roman empire ceded the austrian netherlands to france and northern italy was turned into several french "sister republics"
- great britain helped set up the french monarchy
Comments