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4 unusual facts about Treaty of Basel


Captaincy General of Cuba

The transfer of the Spanish part of Santo Domingo to France in 1795 in the Treaty of Basel, made Cuba the main Spanish possession in the Caribbean.

Germany–Holy See relations

One result was the cession of the Rhineland to France by the Treaty of Basel in 1795.

Juan Sánchez Ramírez

He requested to assistance from the British army established in Jamaica, for force the French to surrender Santo Domingo (what was seld to France with the Treaty of Basel, 1795).

Treaty of Basel

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal (1989)


Frederick William II of Prussia

The insurrection in Poland that followed the partition of 1793, and the threat of the isolated intervention of Russia, hurried Frederick William into the separate Treaty of Basel with the French Republic (5 April 1795), which was regarded by the great monarchies as a betrayal, and left Prussia morally isolated in Europe on the eve of the struggle between the monarchical principle and the new republican creed of the Revolution.


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