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French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1801) - events| 6 November 1792 | France, Austrian Netherlands, Austria-HM, Belgium | French forces under General Charles-François Dumouriez defeat an Austrian army at Jemappes, after which they take Brussels and overrun the Austrian Netherlands (Belgium). | | 1 February 1793 | France, UK, United Netherlands | France declares war on Britain and the Dutch Republic. | | 13 February 1793 | France, UK, Austria-HM, Prussia, Spain | The First Coalition against France is formed by Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, the Dutch Republic, Spain, and Sardinia. | | 7 March 1793 | France, Spain | France declares war on Spain. Spanish forces invade the French-occupied territories of Roussillon and Navarre on the border between the two countries. | | 18 March 1793 | France, Austrian Netherlands, Belgium, Austria-HM | French forces under General Charles-François Dumouriez are defeated at Neerwinden in the Netherlands by Austrian forces under Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg, leading to the Austrian reconquest of the Austrian Netherlands. | | 1 June 1794 | UK, France | The British admiral Richard, Lord Howe, defeats a French fleet in the English Channel in a battle subsequently known in Britain as ‘The Glorious First of June’. | | 26 June 1794 | Austria-HM, France, Austrian Netherlands, Belgium | A French army under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan defeats Austrian forces at Fleurus in the Austrian Netherlands. The Austrian commander, Freidrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg, evacuates the Austrian Netherlands. | | 5 April 1795 | France, Prussia, Saxony, Germany | France and Prussia sign the Peace of Basel, under which France retains its conquests on the left bank of the Rhine pending the conclusion of a peace with the Holy Roman Empire, while Prussia receives territories on the right bank. Saxony, Hanover, the Bavarian Palatinate, and Hesse-Cassel also agree terms with France. | | 15 May 1796 | France, Sardinia, Savoy | The Italian kingdom of Sardinia signs the Peace of Cherasco with France, ceding Savoy and Nice to France. | | 19 August 1796 | France, Spain, UK | An alliance is signed at San Ildefonso, Spain, between France and Spain against Britain. It is virtually a renewal of the 1761 Family Compact between the Bourbon rulers of the two countries. | | 5 October 1796 | Spain, UK | Spain declares war on Britain. | | 21 July 1798 | France, Egypt-Ottoman | Napoleon Bonaparte's French army in Egypt, having occupied Alexandria, defeats Mameluke forces at the Battle of the Pyramids. French domination of Egypt is established. | | 1 August 1798 | UK, France, Egypt-Ottoman | A British fleet under the English admiral Horatio Nelson destroys the French Toulon fleet in Aboukir Bay, Egypt, (‘the Battle of the Nile’) cutting the French army's communications with Europe and establishing British naval supremacy in the Mediterranean. | | 29 November 1798 | France, Naples | King Ferdinand IV of the Italian kingdom of Naples declares war against France and occupies Rome. | | 1 June 1799 | UK, Russia, Austria-HM, Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Naples | The British prime minister, William Pitt the Younger, concludes the formation of the Second Coalition of Britain, Russia, Austria, the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, and Naples against France. | | 25–27 September 1799 | France, Russia, Swiss Confederation, Austria-HM | French forces under General André Masséna defeat a Russian army under Alexander Korsakov at Zürich, Switzerland; the main Russian force under Field Marshal Count Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov arrives too late, and is forced to retreat across the Alps. Austrian forces under the Archduke Charles retreat to the River Danube. | | 14 June 1800 | France, Austria-HM, Italy | French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte defeat the Austrians under Baron Michel Melas at the Battle of Marengo, northwest Italy, ensuring the French reconquest of Italy. | | 2 September 1801 | Egypt-Ottoman, France, UK | French forces in Egypt under General Jean Menou surrender to the British and are immediately offered free passage home, ending Napoleon Bonaparte's hopes of oriental conquest. |
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