The Second Coalition (1798 - 1800) is the second grouping of several European powers to contain the revolutionary France, if possible to cut down the republican mode and to restore monarchy.

The coalition was made of:

Definition

Name given to the one of the seven coalitions formed by the European powers against France during the Revolution and the Empire. The second coalition, formed at the instigation of the Great Britain, of September 1798 at March 1799, included/understood the Russia, the Austria, the Turkey, the Deux-Siciles, some princes German and the Sweden. It ended after the signature of the Paix of Lunéville (1801) and of Amiens (1802).

Formation

France declares the war with the Austria (April 1799). Austria joined thus against France, the Great Britain, the Russia, the Turkey, Ferdinand IV of Naples. The Prussia, in spite of solicitudes of the Austria and the Russia, and also thanks to the interventions of the ambassador of France, Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, remains neutral. The second coalition is formed.

Strategy

With the difference of the First coalition (1793 - 1797) which, in 1793 had attacked France without overall plan, she intends to act by coordinating the efforts of her troops and the action of risen of the interior. The British Minister for the Foreign affairs, William Wyndham Grenville, after multiple letters with his Austrian, Russian counterparts, Neapolitan, Turkish, as at Louis XVIII of France which directs the royalist secret societies of the interior of France (in particular the philantropic Institut ) develops the following plan: a Russian army transported by British vessels will attack the French troops of Holland. Austrian armies will take the offensive in Germany and in Suisse, in direction of the the Rhine, to the Russian armies, Austrian and Turkish will endeavor to drive out the French of Italy. At the same time will burst with the Netherlands, in the Rhineland, Suisse, Italy, of the insurrections against the French. When the armies of united reach the borders of France, i.e., towards mid-August the 1799, of royalist risings will occur in the areas of Toulouse and Bordeaux, in the Vendée, Brittany and Normandy. After the victory, Louis XVIII will go up on the throne and the Ancien Mode will be restored, according to the program exposed by Louis XVI to the General states of 1789 and confirmed by the proclamation of Louis XVIII with Vérone the June 24th 1795.

Chronology

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