HIST 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: German Confederation, Iberian Peninsula, Guerrilla Warfare
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Napoleon ran away back to paris to raise a new army. Stunning defeat for napoleon, and since this, french was in retreat back to france. French empire was falling apart because of the weakening french militarythe. Napoleon was good at making deals, so they had to make sure allies can have solidarity. End of 18 century, russia and austria and prussia conspired to split poland in 2. There was a piece that napoleon cut out for himself before. Russia wanted it for security, and they did most of the fighting so they felt like they deserved this. Prussia willing to go along with it as long as it was compensated with another land. Austrians thought alexander 1 (tsar of russia) as dangerous. British thought this would break up the allies and wanted to get russia and austria to think about defeating napoleon.
