The Second Coalition Was Not the Most Stable Thing on Earth

The kingdom of naples forced everyone's hand, encouraged by the british and with extravagant promises of support from the russians. The austrians had no desire to get caught fighting the french alone again so they were not eager to pull the trigger on anything just yet. On november twelfth, 17 98, a neapolitan army crossed the border with the new roman republic. This attack caught the french general running rome, a guy named jean etienne champione, by surprise,. And he had to scramble to get his garrison out of the city before it was a the neapolitans occupied rome on november 20 sixth.