1794. Capture of most of the French West Indies. Lord Howe gained a decisive victory over the Brest fleet (June 1).
1795. War with Holland, and capture of the Cape of Good Hope, as well as nearly all the Dutch East Indies.
1796. Spain declared war against England.
1797. Sir John Jervis defeated the Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent (Feb. 14). Mutinies of the fleet at Spithead and at the Nore. The Dutch defeated by Admiral Duncan off Camperdown (Oct. 11).
1798. IRISH REBELLION. The rebels defeated several times, and the rebellion suppressed. Battle of THE NILE, in which Nelson almost destroyed the French fleet (Aug. 1).
1799. Generals Harris and Baird besieged and captured Seringapatam: Tippoo Saib killed (May 4). Buonaparte unsuccessfully besieged Acre, which was defended by Sir Sidney Smith. He returned to France, and was declared First Consul.
1800. The Irish parliament agreed to a legislative union with England. Malta taken from the French (Sept. 5). Maritime confederacy formed against England by Russia, Prussia, Sweden, and Denmark.
1801. Union of Great Britain and Ireland. Mr. Addington succeeded Pitt as premier. The French defeated by the English at Alexandria (Mar. 21). Battle of COPENHAGEN (April 2); this victory, and the assassination of the emperor Paul, broke up the maritime confederacy.
By the terms of the union with Ireland, four spiritual peers, twenty-eight temporal peers, and a hundred commoners were to represent Ireland in the united parliament. The churches of England and Ireland were to be united into one Protestant episcopal church, called the United Church of England and Ireland; both countries were to enjoy the same commercial privileges; and the laws and courts of each country were to remain the same as before, subject to alterations by the united parliament.
1802. Treaty of Amíens, between England, France, Spain, and Holland (Mar. 27). Buonaparte declared consul for life.