France, after seizing the Netherlands in a surprise winter attack,establishes the Batavian Republic as a puppet state.
Further, Prussia and Spain both decide to make peace, in the Peace of Basel ceding the left bank of the Rhine to France and freeing French armies from the Pyrenees.
This ends the main crisis phase of the Revolution and France proper will be free from invasion for many years.Britain attempts to reinforce the rebels in the Vendée, but fails, and attempts to overthrow the government at Paris by force are foiled by the military garrison led by Napoleon Bonaparte, leading to the establishment of the Directory.On the Rhine frontier, General Pichegru, negotiating with the exiled Royalists, betrays his army and forces the evacuation of Mannheim and the failure of the siege of Mayence by Jourdan.
