Angered by the major powers' lenience towards Louis XVI and the overthrown French monarchy, France's revolutionary government declared war onGreat Britain, Austria,Prussia, the Ottoman Empire, and the Iberian nations in 1792. Ostensively, the war seemed poised to be won by the allies, and it did go in their favor initially. However, when the National Convention put a young Napoleon Bonaparte in charge of the exhausted French army of Italy, the tide turned.