What did French military successes in 1796 reveal about Napoleon? Check all that apply.
He was gaining control.The correct answers are:
This is because the First Coalition (1792-1797) of Austria, Prussia, the United Kingdom, Spain and Piedmont (Italy) against France was the first attempt to end republicanism. The coalition was defeated by the French due to a general mobilization, mass cams, reforms in the army and an absolute war. In 1795, France annexed the Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium) and the Rhineland. Follows the conquest of the United Provinces of the Netherlands (which had declared war in 1793) and its transformation into the Batavian Republic (Treaty of The Hague, January 19, 1795). Prussia signed the Peace of Basel and left the coalition. Spain, after some initial victories in the invasion of Roussillon in 1793 (war of Roussillon), saw how the French troops invaded Catalonia, the Basque Country and Navarre. Faced with this threat, he also signed separately in 1795 the Peace of Basel. The Italian campaigns of Napoleon in 1796 and 1797, also made the Coalition leave the Piedmont. Piedmont was one of the original members of the Coalition and had meant a persistent danger for France on the Italian front for four years at the time when Napoleon assumed command of the French army in Italy. It took Bonaparte a month to defeat Piedmont and push back his Austrian allies. The forces of the Papal States surrendered to the French in Fort Urban, forcing Pope Pius VI to sign a tentative peace treaty (Tolentino Peace Treaty) and the successive Austrian counter-offensives in Italy were unsuccessful, and led to entry of Bonaparte in the Friul. The war ended by forcing Bonaparte to the Austrians to accept their own conditions in the Treaty of Campo Formio. The United Kingdom was then the only power still at war with France.
