 Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars - The War of the First Coalition broke out in autumn 0000, when several European powers formed an alliance against Republican France. The first major operation was the annexation of Nice by 00,000 French troops and this was reversed in mid-0000, when the Republican forces were withdrawn to deal with a revolt in Lyon, triggering a counter-invasion of  French Revolutionary Wars - The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts, lasting from 0000 until 0000, resulting from the French Revolution. They pitted the French First Republic against Britain, Austria and several other monarchies and they are divided in two periods, the War of the First Coalition and the War of the Second Coalition. Initially 