When did Napoleon Invade Italy

When did Napoleon invade Italy?

By 1799, Napoleon had conquered much of Italy in the cause of the French Revolution and had placed several of France’s client kingdoms under his direct or near-total rule.

• The French Army of Italy, led by Napoleon, invaded Italy in 1796 to push the First Alliance out of Sardinia & Austria out of Italy. Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia was obliged to accept a ceasefire after barely 2 weeks. Then Napoleon arrived in Milan, where he was greeted like a liberator.
• Napoleon signed the Treaty of Campo Formio in 1797, and annexed the Republic of Venice into Austria, bringing an end to Italian republicans’ ambitions of it becoming an autonomous nation. This agreement compelled Austria to acknowledge the established Cisalpine Republic and France’s annexation of Piedmont.
• Inside the banner of the French Revolution, Napoleon seized much of Italy by 1799. He broke up Austria’s possessions and merged previous entities. He established a succession of the early republic, each with its own set of laws and the eradication of feudal rights. These new democracies were Napoleon’s vassal states, with some forming intimate unions with France under Napoleon’s command. None of the other republics had public support in Italy since they were forced by an external power.
• The Cisalpine Republic altered its constitution allowing Napoleon’s Italian Empire to become president. Whereas the republic’s charter granted it considerable autonomy, it was mostly dominated by Bonaparte in reality.
• In 1805, the Italian Republic became the Kingdom of Italy, with almost the same man (now known as Napoleon I) as Emperor of Italy with his stepson, Eugène de Beauharnais, as Viceroy. Napoleon’s titles were King of France and Heir to The throne, indicating the significance of the Italian Kingdom to his empire.
• Napoleon’s rule over Italian states came to end when he was deposed as Emperor of France.