Wars of Liberation and the New PatriotismHistory 323 / Jan. 18, 2013

The Confederationof the Rhine(1806-1812)

= all German states save Prussia and

Austria

J. G. FichteSpeeches to the German Nation

(1808)

Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769-1860)

Poem:The German Fatherland

(1813)

“Gym father” Jahn

Napoleon’s Continental System, 1806-1812

French attack on the Kremlin in Moscow

Moscow burns

Napoleon retreating from Moscow

Three allies meet, March 1813:Friedrich Wilhelm III (Prussia), Francis I (Austria), and Alexander I (Russia)

Prussia’s“Iron Cross”

(introduced 1813)

Prussia’s new Landwehr (citizens’ militia) departs for war

The “Battle of the Nations” at Leipzig (Oct. 13-17, 1813)

Allied troops in Paris, 1814

The battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815)

Marshall Blücher arrives just in time; Wellington is jubilant

Napoleon after the battle

Negotiations in Vienna

Clemens von Metternich

Foreign minister of Austria,1809-1848

The German Confederation

(est. 1815)