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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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| 1797 |
| | | By the Treaty of Campo Formio the free republic of Venice, created by Napoleon, is handed over to Austrian rule | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Napoleon's campaign in Egypt begins well with the Battle of the Pyramids, a victory over an Egyptian army | |
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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon leads a costly, unsuccessful and plague-ridden expedition against the Turkish garrisons in Syria | |
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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon, in Syria, orders 3000 captured defenders of Jaffa to be killed by bayonet or drowning to save ammunition | |
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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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| 1800 |
| | | Napoleon takes a French army through the Alps before the snows have cleared, and defeats the Austrians at Marengo | |
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| 1801 |
| | | Horatio Nelson puts his telescope to his blind eye when the signal is given to withdraw from Copenhagen harbour | |
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| 1801 |
| | | Both France and Britain, engaged against each other in the Napoleonic Wars, take the first census of their populations | |
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