Campo Formio

American

[kahm-paw fawr-myaw] / ˈkɑm pɔ ˈfɔr mjɔ /

noun

a village in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, in NE Italy, NW of Trieste: treaty between Austria and France 1797.

Campo Formio British

/ ˈkampo ˈfɔrmjo /

noun

Modern name: Campoformido. a village in NE Italy, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia: scene of the signing of a treaty in 1797 that ended the war between revolutionary France and Austria

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According to the terms of the peace of Campo Formio, the Republic was divided between France and Austria and the Ionian isles went to France.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cobenzel later negotiated with Napoleon, then only a general, in his apartments at Campo Formio, for peace between Austria and France.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hard after we have the great episode of the Treaty of Campo Formio, and then the expedition to Egypt.

From The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 by Various

The treaty of peace signed at Campo Formio, Napoleon immediately sent to Paris.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various

Austria has concluded four treaties with me within the last twelve years, but I must confess that this is the most advantageous to us—more so than the treaties of Campo Formio, Luneville, and Presburg.

From Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by Jordan, F.

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