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The French conquest of Corsica was a successful expedition by French forces of the Kingdom of France under Comte de Vaux, against Corsican forces under Pasquale Paoli of the Corsican Republic. The expedition was launched in May 1768, in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War .
The French gained control in the 1768 Treaty of Versailles. Corsica was briefly independent as a Kingdom in union with Great Britain after the French Revolution in 1789, with a viceroy and elected Parliament, but returned to French rule in 1796. Corsica strongly supported the allies in World War I, caring for wounded, and housing POWs.
The "Porta dei Genovesi" in Bonifacio, a city where some inhabitants still speak a Genoese dialect. The Corsican revolutionary Pasquale Paoli was called "the precursor of Italian irredentism" by Niccolò Tommaseo because he was the first to promote the Italian language and socio-culture (the main characteristics of Italian irredentism) in his island; Paoli wanted the Italian language to be the ...
In September 1768, France began its conquest of Corsica. France gained full military control of the island following the Battle of Ponte Novu in 1769, [4] and until the French Revolution, the island was considered the personal possession of the King.
Corsica was for centuries a part of the Republic of Genoa, although by the mid-eighteenth century it was de facto independent as the Corsican Republic, led by Pasquale Paoli. [3] Unable to contest Paoli's control of the island, the Genoese sold Corsica to the Kingdom of France in 1768, and a French invasion swiftly captured and annexed the ...
15 May – French conquest of Corsica: Treaty of Versailles – The island of Corsica is ceded to France by the Republic of Genoa; 16 September – Louis XV appoints René de Maupeou as Chancellor (an office he will hold until 1790) and orders him to crush the judicial opposition
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Battle commenced on the morning of 8 October 1768 and lasted ten hours. De Grandmaison tried in vain to defeat Clément Paoli and his men. Marbeuf and Chauvelin thought it best to retreat and de Ludre surrendered. 600 were dead, 1000 wounded and 600 taken prisoner, whilst 3 bronze cannon, 6 other cannon, a mortar, 1,700 fusils and other munitions were captured by the Corsicans.