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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Amiens SC, People from Amiens, Treaty of Amiens, Vincent Voiture, Yann M'Vila, Battle of Amiens, Amiens Cathedral, Operation Jericho, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Julie Coin, Paul Bourget, Magnentius, Andre Marie Constant Dumeril, Yannick Salem, 2001 Coupe de France Final, Gare d'Amiens, George Albert Bazaine-Hayter, Honoratus of Amiens, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, Musee de Picardie, Jean Boulanger, List of forces involved in the Battle of Amiens, Kevin Hecquefeuille, Philippe Gaumont, Zahir Zerdab, Jean-Pierre Pernaut, Charles Cressent, Ulphia, Amiens 1st Canton, Amiens 8th Canton, Samarobriva, Amiens 4th Canton, Amiens 5th Canton, Amiens 7th Canton, Amiens 2nd Canton, Amiens 3rd Canton, Amiens 6th Canton, Francois Dubois, Jean Luc Van Den Heede, Gothiques d'Amiens, Roland Dorgeles, Stade de la Licorne, Simone Renant, Alfred Letourneur, Bernard Quennehen, Saint Domitius, Gare de Saint-Roch, Thomas Roussel, Alfred-Georges Regner, Raphael Poulain, Francois Scellier, Ches Cabotans, Count of Amiens, County of Amiens. Excerpt: The Treaty of Amiens temporarily ended hostilities between the French Republic and the United Kingdom during the French Revolutionary Wars. It was signed in the city of Amiens on 25 March 1802 (Germinal 4, year X in the French Revolutionary Calendar), by Joseph Bonaparte and the Marquess Cornwallis as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace." The consequent Peace of Amiens lasted only one year (18 May 1803) and was the only period of peace during the so-called 'Great French War' between 1793 and 1815. Under the treaty, the United Kingdom (UK) recognised the French Republic; George III had only two years previously dropped the English crown's historical claim, dating back to 1340 and Edward III, to the now-defunct French Kingdom. Together with the Treaty of Luneville (1801), the Treaty of Amiens marked the e...