📜17 October 1797. With the Treaty of Campoformio, a small town in #Friuli region, #Napoleon sells (or gives away) Venice and its region to the Austrian, at the time still leading nation of the so called Sacred Roman Empire (which will be extinct in 1806).
Napoleon conquered Venice just few months before (see more story 👉 here) but he wasn't much interested in the city (apart from stealing everything he could from Venetian palaces), so he used it as a bargain for his expansionist aims.
The Austrian troops entered in Venice at the beginning of 1798, the entire Venetian region stayed under #Austria domination until 1866.

«Il sacrificio della patria nostra è consumato: tutto è perduto; e la vita, seppure ne verrà concessa, non ci resterà che per piangere le nostre sciagure, e la nostra infamia."
(Ugo Foscolo, Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis)

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📜 #17October 1797.

👉 Napoleon sells Venice to Austria