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  Napoleonic Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At the Congress of Erfurt (1808) Napoleon and Alexander agreed that Russia should force Sweden to join the Continental System, which led to the Finnish War of 1808 - 1809 and to the division of Sweden into two parts separated by the Gulf of Bothnia.
The victors exiled Napoleon to the island of Elba, and restored the Bourbon monarchy in the person of Louis XVIII.
They signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau and initiated the Congress of Vienna to redraw the map of Europe.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Napoleonic_wars   (6504 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Convinced of the necessity of a strong Austria to maintain European stability, Talleyrand, who accompanied Napoleon to the Congress of Erfurt (1808), secretly worked in Austria's rather than Napoleon's interest by persuading the Russian Czar Alexander I to oppose Napoleon's designs against Austria.
He represented France at the Congress of Vienna (see Vienna, Congress of) of 1814-15, where he scored his greatest diplomatic triumphs.
Winning the European powers to his principle of "legitimacy," namely, the restoration of Europe to its prerevolutionary status, and shrewdly exploiting the dissension among the allies, he succeeded in taking part in the negotiations on equal terms with the principal victorious powers.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/Talleyra.asp   (900 words)

  
 Glossary of People: Ka
Their opposition was defeated in a vote by the majority of the party, to which they responded on the 18th of October, writing for Novaya Zhizn (a Menshevik daily), of the Bolshevik plan for an uprising against the government, and expressed their opinions that it was doomed.
His draft of the SPD programme, approved by Engels, was accepted at the Erfurt Congress in 1895 and became another of his highly influential publications and at least three different translations into English were made of it.
At the Congress of the Second International at Stuttgart in 1907 he successfully attacked the pro-colonialist faction: Social democrats defended colonialism with racism, as did Bernstein, with the thought that colonial rule was moving a "backward" society forward.
www.marxists.org /glossary/people/k/a.htm   (3671 words)

  
 Napoleonic Wars @ Nelson.y2u.co.uk
At the Congress of Erfurt (1808) Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I agreed that Russia should force Sweden to join the Continental System, which led to the Finnish War and the division of Sweden through the Gulf of Bothnia.
However, occasional military actions continued in Italy, Spain and Holland throughout the spring of 1814.
Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba, and the Bourbon kings were restored under Louis XVIII.The Treaty of Fontainebleau was signed and the Congress of Vienna was held to redraw the map of Europe.
nelson.y2u.co.uk /NL-Napoleonic-Wars.htm   (5716 words)

  
 Napoleon I - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
When the czar rejected the Continental System, which was ruinous to Russia's economy, Napoleon gathered the largest army Europe had ever seen.
He was exiled to Elba, which the allies gave him as a sovereign principality.
His victors were still deliberating at the Congress of Vienna (see Vienna, Congress of
www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/search/search.php?word=Napoleon1   (2477 words)

  
 hegel.net - Hegel (1770-1731) and his time - Timeline 1748-1841
Edward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
June 8: U.S. Congress approves war against Britain (the formal declaration is made 19th)
Dec 14: Congress of Verona ends, having ignored Greek War of Independence
www.hegel.net /en/timeline.htm   (3441 words)

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