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To increase his control over the German states and definitively destroy the Holy Roman Empire, Napoleon set up the Confederation of the Rhine, grouping together a large number of formerly indepedent states, and forced the Emperor to abdicate his position. This source is a part of the The Napoleonic Experience teaching module.
Confederation of the Rhine, league of German states formed by Emperor Napoleon I in 1806 after his defeat of the Austrians at Austerlitz. Among its members were the newly created kingdoms of Bavaria and Württenberg (see Pressburg, Treaty of ), the grand duchies of Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, and Berg, and a number of other principalities ...
French leaders, such as Louis XIV and Napoleon Bonaparte, tried with varying degrees of success to annex lands west of the Rhine. The Confederation of the Rhine was established by Napoleon, as a French client state, in 1806 and lasted until 1814, during which time it served as a significant source of resources and military manpower for the ...
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On 16 July, 1806, a treaty was signed in Paris bringing about the creation of the Confederation of the Rhine or Rheinbund. The treaty was ratified by Napoleon and the members on 19 of the same month. The confederation was a group of sixteen German states under the presidency of a Prince primat, helped by a coadjutor, the whole under the ...
This bibliography forms part of our bicentenary close-up of the creation of the Confederation of the Rhine. Treaty creating the Confederation of the Rhine (Paris, 12 July, 1806) in German (on the German web site Verfassungen der Welt) – L. E. Lee, The Politics of Harmony . Civil service, Liberalism and Social Reform in Baden, 1800-1850 ...
A close-up on: the creation of the Confederation of the Rhine, 12 July, 1806. After having sketched out his ideas regarding France and German lands in a letter to Talleyrand (Minister of Foreign Affairs) dated October 1805, Napoleon went further in the spring of 1806, creating a confederation of small western German states grouped around the ...
