SNC099-C
Consignment
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Del Prado SNC099 Trooper, French 1st Hussars, 1800
Republican France and Imperial Austria had concluded peace at Campo Formio on 17 October 1797, ending the War of the First Coalition, but it was generally regarded as a mere pause by all the major Powers.
During the spring of 1798, Frances conquests were incorporated into her territory (Piedmont and the Austrian Netherlands) or turned into satellites: the Roman, Ligurian (Genoa) and Cisalpine (Lombardy Republics were established. The war had created a huge drain on Frances resources of men and material, so Revolutionary France decided to make war pay for war with huge contributions demanded from conquered territories and to plunder the conquests in peacetime. All the satellites financed their French occupation forces.