French Revolutionary Wars: Campaigns of 1801
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The French Revolutionary Wars continued from 1800 with the French bringing the war against the Second Coalition to a close.
By February 9, the Austrians had signed the Treaty of Lunéville, ending the war on the continent. The war against Great Britain continued, and the armies of Britain and the Ottoman Empire invaded Egypt in March, defeating France's armies there at Aboukir. After the allies occupied Cairo and Alexandria, the French surrendered in August.
The naval war also continued, with Britain maintaining a blockade of France by sea. Non-combatants Russia, Prussia, Denmark, and Sweden joined to protect neutral shipping from British attacks, but were unsuccessful. British Admiral Horatio Nelson defied orders and attacked the Danish fleet in harbor at the Battle of Copenhagen, destroying much of the fleet of one of France's more steady allies during the period. An armistice prevented him from continuing into the Baltic Sea to attack the Russian fleet at Reval.
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