Timeline July 1795

Events in July 1795 2

• 1795 Expedition of Quiberon Royalist emigres land in France with British backing A force of royalist emigres, transported and equipped by Britain, landed on the Quiberon peninsula in Brittany to support counter-revolutionary rebels. Republican troops under General Lazare Hoche encircled and crushed the landing within weeks. Hundreds of captured emigres were subsequently executed, ending the scheme as a catastrophic failure for the royalist cause.
• 1795 Treaty of Basel between Spain and France Spain makes peace with revolutionary France Spain signed a treaty at Basel ending its war against revolutionary France, ceding the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola, Santo Domingo, to France. The peace removed Spain from the First Coalition and realigned it toward cooperation with Paris. It marked a significant diplomatic reversal after years of war alongside Britain and Austria.