War of the First Coalition

Examples of War of the First Coalition in the following topics:

• Early Wars with Austria and Britain

  • The War of the First Coalition (1792–1797), one of the conflicts of the French Revolutionary Wars, was the first attempt by the European monarchies to defeat the French First Republic.
  • A number of smaller states, including Spain, Portugal, the Dutch Republic, were also part of the First Coalition over the course of the war.
  • This ended the War of the First Coalition, although Great Britain and France remained at war.
  • The Mediterranean campaign of 1798 was a series of major naval operations surrounding a French expeditionary force sent to Egypt under Napoleon Bonaparte that serves as a bridge between the War of the First Coalition and the War of the Second Coalition.
  • In December 1804, an Anglo-Swedish agreement became the first step towards the creation of the Third Coalition.

• Foreign Intervention

  • The King, many of the Feuillants, and the Girondins wanted to wage war.
  • They pitted the French First Republic against several monarchies, most notably Britain and Austria, and are divided in two periods: the War of the First Coalition (1792–1797) and the War of the Second Coalition (1798–1802).
  • The War of the First Coalition began with French victories, which rejuvenated the French nation and emboldened the National Convention to abolish the monarchy.
  • With French forces marching towards Vienna, the Austrians sued for peace and agreed to the Treaty of Campo Formio, ending the First Coalition against the Republic.
  • The War of the Second Coalition (1798–1802) included an alliances of Britain, Austria, Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, and Naples.

• Napoleon's Military Record

  • With French forces marching towards Vienna, the Austrians sued for peace and agreed to the Treaty of Campo Formio, ending the First Coalition against the Republic.
  • The War of the Second Coalition began with the French invasion of Egypt, headed by Napoleon, in 1798.
  • The Allies took the opportunity presented by the French strategic effort in the Middle East to regain territories lost from the First Coalition.
  • The lingering tensions proved too difficult to contain, however, and the Napoleonic Wars began a few years later with the formation of the Third Coalition, continuing the series of Coalition Wars.
  • The political effect of war increased.

• The Party in Government

  • The term "majority government" may also be used for a stable coalition of two or more parties to form an absolute majority.
  • One example of such an electoral coalition is in Australia, where the Liberal and National parties have run as an electoral bloc for decades.
  • Another example is the current coalition government in the United Kingdom, which is composed of the Conservative and Liberal Democratic parties.
  • The conservatives won the most seats of any single party in the 2010 election, but fell short of an absolute majority.
  • This is the first true coalition government in the UK since World War II.

• A Global War

  • Although the question of whether the Seven Years' War was the first world war remains ambiguous, the war marked a shift in the European balance of power that shaped the world far beyond Europe.
  • For the first time, aiming to curtail Britain and Prussia's ever-growing might, France formed a grand coalition of its own, which ended with failure as Britain rose as the world's predominant power, altering the European balance of power.
  • Because of its span and global impact, some historians have argued that the Seven Years' War was the first world war (it took place almost 160 years before World War I).
  • While the question of whether the Seven Years' War was, indeed, the first world war remains ambiguous, the war had certainly global impact and marked a shift in the European balance of power.
  • Assess the claim that the Seven Years' War was the first world war

• The War on Terrorism

  • The phrase "War on Terror" was first used by U.S.
  • In February 1998, Osama bin Laden, as the head of al-Qaeda, signed a fatwā declaring war on the West and Israel, and later in May of that same year al-Qaeda released a video declaring war on the U.S. and the West.
  • In December, Coalition forces (the U.S. and its allies) fought within that region.
  • The Bush administration also stated that the Iraq War was part of the War on Terror, a claim that was later questioned.
  • Identify the main elements of U.S. foreign policy during the War on Terror

• Introduction to the Peloponnesian War

  • During the first phase, known as the Archidamian War, Sparta launched repeated invasions of Attica while Athens took advantage of its naval supremacy to raid the Peloponnese coast.
  • The Peace of Nicias was signed in 421 BCE, concluding the first phase of the war.
  • The Athenians supported the Argives and encouraged them to form a coalition of democratic states within the Peloponnese and separate from Sparta.
  • The Argive allied coalition initially utilized the sheer strength of their combined forces to score early successes, but failed to capitalize on them, providing the elite Spartan forces opportunities to defeat the coalition and save their city from a strategic defeat.
  • This ushered in the final phase of the war, known as the Decelean War, or the Ionian War.

• Domestic Conservatism

  • The Conservative Coalition generally controlled Congress until 1963; no major legislation passed which the Coalition opposed.
  • However most Americans supported strong measures against Japan; Europe was the focus of the America First Committee.
  • Roosevelt to keep his pledge to keep America out of the war.
  • Lindbergh adopted an anti-war stance even before the Battle of Britain and before the advent of the lend-lease bill.
  • His first radio speech was broadcast on September 15, 1939 over all three of the major radio networks.

• Political Parties

  • For example it was a Republican-led congress that initiated the Civil War amendments that officially outlawed slavery in the US and gave citizenship and voting rights to formerly enslaved people and their ancestors.
  • Today we are seeing another shift in the Republican Party with the increased influence of the Tea Party social movement within the leadership of the party.
  • In semi-presidential systems such as France, where the president formally appoints a prime minister but the government itself must still maintain the confidence of parliament, coalition governments occur quite regularly.
  • In the United States, political parties are best described as coalitions.
  • Nancy Pelosi is the leader of the House Democrats and the first women to be Speaker of the House.

• A World War

  • The Seven Years War was a global military war involved most of the great global powers of the time, which affected European colonies.
  • The Seven Years War was a global military war between 1756 and 1763, involving most of the great powers of the time and affecting Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines (.
  • War between Britain and France had been formally declared on May18th; nearly two years after the first fighting had broken out in the Ohio Country.
  • The attack on the neutral Electorate of Saxony caused outrage across Europe and led to the strengthening of the anti-Prussian coalition.
  • Discuss the impact of the Seven Years War on the North American continent