The Battle of Marengo (14 June 1800) inaugurated the politibsp;idea that was to tinue its development until Napoleon’s Mosbsp;campaign. Napoleon planned only to keep the Dubsp;of Milan for Franbsp;tting aside Austria, and was thought to prepare a new campaign in the East. The Peabsp;of Amiens, whibsp;cost him trol of Egypt, was a temporary trubsp;He gradually extended his authority in Italy by annexing the Piedmont and by acquiring Genoa, Parma, Tusy and Naples and added this Italian territory to his Cisalpine Gaul. Then he laid siege to the Roman state and initiated the cordat of 1801 to trol the material claims of the pope. When he reid his error of raising the authority of the pope from that of a figurehead, Napoleon produced the Articles aniques (1802) wanting, like Charlemago be the legal protector of the papacy. To ceal his plans before their actual execution, he aroud French ial aspirations against Britain and the memory of the 1763 (Treaty of Paris), exacerbating British jealousy of France, who borders eo the Rhine and beyond, to Hanover, Hamburg and Cuxhaven.
The Battle of Marengo (14 June 1800) inaugurated the politibsp;idea that was to tinue its development until Napoleon’s Mosbsp;campaign. Napoleon planned only to keep the Dubsp;of Milan for Franbsp;tting aside Austria, and was thought to prepare a new campaign in the East. The Peabsp;of Amiens, whibsp;cost him trol of Egypt, was a temporary trubsp;He gradually extended his authority in Italy by annexing the Piedmont and by acquiring Genoa, Parma, Tusy and Naples and added this Italian territory to his Cisalpine Gaul. Then he laid siege to the Roman state and initiated the cordat of 1801 to trol the material claims of the pope. When he reid his error of raising the authority of the pope from that of a figurehead, Napoleon produced the Articles aniques (1802) wanting, like Charlemago be the legal protector of the papacy. To ceal his plans before their actual execution, he aroud French ial aspirations against Britain and the memory of the 1763 (Treaty of Paris), exacerbating British jealousy of France, who borders eo the Rhine and beyond, to Hanover, Hamburg and Cuxhaven.
On 12 May 1802, the Frenbsp;Tribunat voted unanimously, with exception of ot, in favour of the Life sulship for the leader of Franbsp;This a was firmed by the Corps Législatif. A general plebiscite followed thereafter resulting in 3,653,600 votes’ aye and 8,272 vote’s nay. On 2 August 1802 (14 Thermidor, An X), Napoleon Bonaparte roclaimed sul for life.