Treaty of Amiens

The Peace of Amiens was signed on 25 and 27 March 1802 in northern France Amiens between Britain on the one side and Napoleonic France, Spain and the Batavian Republic on the other side. He finished thus finally the Second Coalition War after the Peace of Luneville in 1801, the British coalition Austria and the Holy Roman Empire had left it.

According to the Peace of Amiens Britain should all colonial conquests except Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ) and Trinidad to return to France and Malta to the Order of Malta, which should be subject to a guaranteed by all major European powers permanent neutrality. France should evacuate Egypt, Naples and the Papal States. The inviolability of the Ottoman Empire was guaranteed. France was the de facto winner and cut thus significantly better. In the long term, however, could not keep the peace, because Napoleon 's failure to conclude a commercial treaty with Great Britain; that is, that all restrictions that had been considered during the war, also passed on. None of the provisions of the contract has been completely fulfilled, and so it came from the May 18, 1803 again to arguments.

Thus, the peace lasted only thirteen months, and three weeks. During this time, British tourists flocked to the continent. Christopher Herold were, according to September 1802 in Paris alone ten thousand Britons, and in the flourishing salons of the great ladies you spoke again with Madame citizen to take. The Treaty of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and Joseph Bonaparte for France, Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck was signed for the Batavian Republic, José Nicolás de Azara for Spain and Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis for the UK.