Treaty of Amiens
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The Treaty of Amiens temporarily ended hostilities between France, the Spanish Empire, and the United Kingdom at the end of the War of the Second Coalition. It marked the end of the French Revolutiona
The Peace of Amiens by Jules-Claude Ziegler, 1853
Britain's foreign secretary Robert Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury, 1796 portrait by Thomas Lawrence
Joseph Bonaparte, portraited by Luigi Toro
Page of the Treaty with the eight seals and the eight signatures of the signatories
War of the Third Coalition
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The War of the Third Coalition was a European conflict lasting from 1805 to 1806 and was the first conflict of the Napoleonic Wars. During the war, France and its client states under Napoleon I and it
Treaty of Amiens
…the terms of the Treaty did not favour his country, British Prime Minister Henry Addington used the interlude to rebuild British strength, so that when fighting renewed in spring 1803, the Royal Navy quickly gained control of the seas. The isolationist foreign policy of the United States, which was hostile to both Britain and France…
War of the 3rd coalition
Napoleon Distributing the Legion of Honour at the Camp of Boulogne by Philippe-Auguste Hennequin
The strategic situation in Europe in 1805 before the start of the Ulm Campaign and the war
The French concentrated around the Rhine from early to mid-September. 210,000 troops of the Grande Armée prepared to cross into Germany and encircle the Austrians.