Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tare da sauyawar tattalin arzikin duniya da hanyoyin kasuwanci zuwa Sabuwar Duniya da kuma nesa da Bahar Rum, ikon siyasa da tattalin arzikin Genoa ya fara raguwa. Sojojinsa sun rushe a lokacin Raid a Genoa a 1793 da kuma Battle of Genoa
a 1795 inda Genoa ya yi yaƙi da jiragen ruwan Faransa da Ingila. A shekara ta 1797, a ƙarƙashin matsin lamba daga Napoleon, Jamhuriyar Genoa ta zama mai kare Faransa da ake kira Jamhuriyar Ligurian, wanda Faransa ta haɗu da ita a 1805. An ambaci wannan gaskiyar a cikin jumla ta farko na Tolstoy "War and Peace":