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Treaty of Campo Formio

1797 treaty during the War of the First Coalition

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Source revisionSep 5, 2026
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The Treaty of Campo Formio was signed on 17 October 1797 by Napoleon Bonaparte and Count Philipp von Cobenzl as representatives of the French Republic and the Austrian monarchy, respectively. The treaty followed the armistice of Leoben, which had been forced on the Habsburgs by Napoleon's victorious campaign in Italy. It ended the War of the First Coalition and left Great Britain fighting alone against revolutionary France.

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“Treaty of Campo Formio” enters the record as 1797 treaty during the War of the First Coalition. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Treaty, Campo and Formio can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Treaty of Campo Formio” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.