The Treaty of Amiens, signed in 1802, temporarily ended hostilities between France, the Spanish Empire, and the United Kingdom at the close of the War of the Second Coalition, bringing an end to the French Revolutionary Wars that had begun in the 1790s and briefly delaying the start of the Napoleonic Wars. Under its terms, Britain gave up most of the territory it had captured during the war while keeping the islands of Ceylon and Trinidad, and France agreed to withdraw its forces from Naples and Egypt.
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Why did the peace made by the Treaty of Amiens last only about a year?
Britain refused to leave Malta and declared war in May 1803, ending what was little more than an armed truce.
Each side dragged its feet on fulfilling the terms, and the peace, little more than an armed truce, lasted only until May 1803, when Britain declared war. Under the treaty Malta was to be given back to the Knights of St John and guaranteed, but Britain could not abide French control of Europe under Napoleon and refused to evacuate Malta. Napoleon then began planning an invasion of England.
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The consequent peace lasted only one year (18 May 1803) and was the only period of general peace in Europe between 1793 and 1814. Under the treaty, Britain recognised the French Republic.
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It was signed in the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) of Amiens on 25 March 1802 (4 Germinal X in the French Revolutionary calendar) by Joseph Bonaparte and Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace".
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Location Amiens, France
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The celebrations of peace, the pamphlets, poems, and odes proliferated in French, English, German, and other languages.
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la paix d'Amiens, lit. 'the peace of Amiens'
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It was signed in the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) of Amiens on 25 March 1802 (4 Germinal X in the French Revolutionary calendar) by Joseph Bonaparte and Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace".
In Group: Peace Treaties and Territorial Settlements of the Age of Revolution and Napoleon, 1700 to 1814, Lead
It was signed in the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) of Amiens on 25 March 1802 (4 Germinal X in the French Revolutionary calendar) by Joseph Bonaparte and Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace".
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