Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 1795, tare da Tsarin Mulki na Shekarar III, Faransa ta kawo ƙarshen tashin hankali na Mulkin Ta'addanci, kuma ta kafa tsarin mulkin mai ra'ayin mazan jiya na Directory. A shekara ta 1796, Directory ya ba da umarnin kaddamar da wani babban hari guda biyu
a kan Hadaddiyar Daular Farko: babban hari na yamma a kan Rhine (a karkashin Jean-Baptiste Jourdan da Jean Victor Marie Moreau) a cikin jihohin Jamus na Daular Roman Empire, da kuma harin da aka yi wa Austrians da abokansu a kudu, a arewacin Italiya. An ba da jagorancin kamfen na Italiya ga saurayi (shekaru 27 a lokacin) janar Napoleon Bonaparte, wanda a watan Afrilu na 1796 ya haye Alps tare da maza 45,000 don fuskantar Austrians da Piemontese.