– The United States Senate ratifies the Jay Treaty with Great Britain. June 28 – The French government announces that the heir to the French throne has died of illness (many doubt the statement). June 27 British forces land off Quiberon, to aid the revolt in Brittany. French troops recapture St. Lucia. Mary Robinson writes the poem January, 1795. July–December July 22 – The Second Treaty of Basel is signed between the French First Republic and Spain, ending the War of the Pyrenees. Spain cedes its half of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola to France. July 25 – Construction of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Wales begins. August 3 – The signing of the Treaty of Greenville puts an end to the Northwest Indian War. August 14 – President Washington signs the Jay Treaty with Britain on behalf of the United States. August 17 – A large slave rebellion occurs in Curaçao, suppressed following month. August 22 – French Revolution: The Constitution of the Year III is ratified by the National Convention. August 25 – British forces capture Trincomalee, Ceylon. August 28 – The Third Treaty of Basel is signed, between the French First Republic and the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel. September 5 – The United States signs a treaty with the Dey of Algiers, ruled by Baba Hassan, pledging the payment of $23,000 a year tribute to prevent piracy against American ships. September 11 – Battle of Krtsanisi: The Persian emperor Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar defeats the forces of Heraclius II of Georgia. September 15 – French Revolutionary Wars – Invasion of the Cape Colony: British forces capture Cape Town in the Dutch Cape Colony, to use its strategic facilities against the French Navy. September 21 – Battle of the Diamond: Protestant forces defeat Catholic troops in Loughgall, Ireland, leading to the foundation of the Orange Order. September 28 – The Alliance of St Petersburg is formed between Britain, Russia and Austria against France. October 1 – The Austrian Netherlands is annexed to the French Republic, as the Belgian departments. October 2 – British forces capture the Île d'Yeu off the coast of Brittany. October 5 – 13 Vendémiaire: Royalist riots in Paris are crushed by troops under Paul Barras, and newly reinstalled artillery officer Napoleon Bonaparte. October 20 – The United States signs a treaty with Spain, opening commerce along the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, and establishing