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| 1796 |
| | | US author Joel Barlow publishes his mock-heroic poem The Hasty Pudding, inspired by a dish eaten in 1793 in France | |
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| 1796 |
| | | Irish nationalist Wolfe Tone sails from France to invade Ireland with a force of 14,000 French soldiers | |
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| 1797 |
| | | Pope Pius VI is seized by a French army in Rome and is taken off to captivity in France | |
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| 1797 |
| | | On 18 Fructidor (September 4) Napoleon organizes, from a distance, a coup d'étât in Paris on behalf of three of the Directors | |
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| 1797 |
| | | Napoleon achieves the peace of Campo Formio, by which Austria cedes the Austrian Netherlands and northern Italy to France | |
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| 1798 |
| | | The US public is outraged by news of the XYZ Affair, in which the French ask for bribes before being willing to negotiate a treaty | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Controversial Alien and Sedition Acts are passed by the US Congress as emergency measures in response to the perceived threat of war with France | |
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| 1799 |
| | | British prime minister William Pitt introduces income tax at 10% to pay for the war against France | |
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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon abandons his army in Egypt and returns hastily to Paris at a time of great political opportunity | |
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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon contrives a military coup that ends the Directory and gives him sweeping powers as First Consul | |
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