Signing of the Convention of Alessandria

Date: June 15, 1800 • Location: Paris, France

War of the Second Coalition: The signing of the Convention of Alessandria brought temporary peace between France and Austria.

The War of the Second Coalition (1798–1802) was the second war between revolutionary France and a coalition of European monarchies, led by Britain, Austria and Russia, and including the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Naples and various German monarchies. Prussia did not join the coalition, while Spain supported France.