- Treaty of Casalanza
The
Treaty of Casalanza was signed between the pro-NapoleonKingdom of Naples and theAustrian Empire , as well as the United Kingdom, on20 May 1815 , which ended theNeapolitan War .Following the decisive defeat at the
Battle of Tolentino and theBattle of San Germano , the Napoleonic King of Naples,Joachim Murat , had fled to Corsica and GeneralMichele Carascosa , who was now the head of the Neapolitan army following Murat's flight, sued for peace. The treaty was signed byPietro Colletta (who was acting asplenipotentiary to Michele Carascosa),Adam Albert von Neipperg (who was acting as plenipotentiary to the commander-in-chief of the Austrian forces, Frederick Bianchi), and Lord Burghersh (the English minister plenipotentiary in Florence).The terms of he treaty were quite lenient on the defeated Neapolitans. All the Neapolitan generals were allowed to keep their rank and the borders of the Kingdom of Naples remained unchanged. The treaty merely called for the return of the pre-Napoleonic King Ferdinand IV of Naples and Sicily to the Neapolitan throne, the return of all prisoners of war and for all the Neapolitan garrisons to lay down their arms, with the exception of
Ancona ,Pescara andGaeta . These three cities were all being blockaded by an Anglo-Austrian fleet and were out of General Carascosa's control. These three garrisons eventually surrendered although the Siege of Gaeta would last till August, long after Napoleon's defeat at theBattle of Waterloo .
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