Military operation

Invasion of Corsica

7 Feb 1794 – 10 Aug 1794 · 42.15° N, 9.08° E

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When
7 Feb 1794 – 10 Aug 1794
Kind
Military operation
Coordinates
42.15° N, 9.08° E
Description
1794 action of the War of the First Coalition

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Invasion of Corsica (1794)

1794 invasion of the War of the First Coalition

The invasion of Corsica was a campaign fought in the spring and summer of 1794 by combined British military and Corsican irregular forces against a French garrison, early in the French Revolutionary Wars. The campaign centred on sieges of three principal towns in Northern Corsica; San Fiorenzo, Bastia and Calvi, which were in turn surrounded, besieged and bombarded until by August 1794 French forces had been driven f…

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