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The Principality continued under the rule of Prince Charles through the Napoleonic era, but was mediatised by Austria in December 1813, at the insistence of King Frederick William III of Prussia, who was angered that Isenburg had raised a regiment for French service by recruiting Prussian deserters and vagabonds.
Following the death of Count Ernst of Isenburg in Brussels in 1664 without direct heir, the territories of Nieder-Isenburg were claimed back as a feudal tenure by the Archbishopric of Cologne, the Archbishopric of Trier and the core tenure of Isenburg and Grenzau by the Archbishopric of Fulda.
- Background
- Laura Secord Warns James Fitzgibbon
- The Battle of Beaver Dams
- Aftermath
The Battle of Beaver Dams occurred during the "see-saw" battles of 1813, in which American forces sought to press their victories on Canadian soil after the successful capture of Fort George in May 1813. On 24 June 1813, almost 500 American troops under Lieutenant-Colonel Charles G. Boerstler were sent from Fort George to harass and encounter Briga...
Laura Secord, a Queenston housewife whose husband had been injured during the Battle of Queenston Heights, overheard talk regarding the upcoming American attack. With her husband ailing, Secord trekked over 30 km toward Beaver Dams to warn the British troops, allegedly passing through American lines and at great risk to her safety, until she encoun...
A party of 300 Kanyen'kehà:ka (Mohawk) warriors from Kahnawake attacked the Americans from the rear along an enclosed, wooded section of the trail near Beaver Dams (now Thorold, Ontario). They were soon joined by 100 more Kanyen'kehà:ka warriors led by Captain William Kerr. After three hours of firing at shadows, the American forces were ready to s...
Kanyen'kehà:ka leader John Norton, who had fought at Beaver Dams, claimed that while Indigenous soldiers fought the battle, FitzGibbon got the credit. However, FitzGibbon noted that the credit that was his due was in seizing an opportunity for using fear, not bullets, rooted in the successful guerilla tactics of the Indigenous forces. Along with th...
When Prince Karl joined the Confederation, Napoleon I granted him additional territories - the counties of Isenburg-Budigen, Isenburg-Meerholz, Isenburg-Philippseich and Isenburg-Wachtersbach - and renamed the principality to 'Isenburg'.
As was the custom in Germany, the Counts of Isenburg had divided and redivided their patrimony down through the centuries, founding new branches, seeing others die out, and merging still others with new lands gained through marriage.
IN early May 1813, Napoleon Bonaparte launched a campaign to restore French dominance over Central Europe in the wake of his dis-astrous war in Russia the previous year. On 2 May at Lützen, he defeated the main Russo-Prussian army in western Saxony.
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