Treaty of Lunéville

The Treaty of Lunéville was signed on 9 February 1801 in the French town of Lunéville between the French First Republic and the Holy Roman Empire, with Emperor Francis II signing on behalf of both the Empire and his own Austrian lands. It followed France's decisive victories at Marengo in June 1800 and Hohenlinden in December 1800, which left Austria with no realistic alternative to negotiating, and it formally ended Austrian participation in the War of the Second Coalition and in the wider French Revolutionary Wars. France gained the entire left bank of the Rhine, including the Austrian Netherlands, while the treaty also required Austria to enforce the earlier Treaty of Campo Formio and recognized the independence of four sister republics, the Cisalpine, Ligurian, Batavian and Helvetic republics, with Austria receiving territorial compensation elsewhere in Germany. The settlement left Britain as France's only remaining major opponent and set in motion the reorganization that would soon reshape the Holy Roman Empire. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/