HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Karl August Von Hardenberg, German Confederation
Document Summary
Takes part of hapsburg and makes it the austria empire: francis ii didn"t want to lose title of emperor (rename francis i of austria) Napoleon thought was liberating people when conquered them: stimulated resentment against french. Thought maybe people of german states had a common culture, language, tradition, and history: artists/writers looked for folk stuff to find cultural and political institutions. Philosophers appealed to german nation as a whole to liberate them. Spain and italy began to appeal to shared language, culture, history as result to french resentment. Nation" should be basis of souvrenity(sp) , source of loyalty and belonging: undo spread of french rev ideology, legit rule is based on hereditary deinisty (sp) Invasion of russia 1812 (depended on exporting grain to britain, tsar of russia didn"t like how napoleon wanted to bring polish emperor back taking russian territory) Defeat of leipzig october 1813 (died of winter in russia: british forces supporting rebel fighters of spain.
