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The General Confederation of the Kingdom of Poland (28 June 1812 – 30 April 1813, Polish Konfederacja Generalna Królestwa Polskiego) was a governing body of the Duchy of Warsaw created by Napoleon Bonaparte and the Polish political elite on the onset of Napoleon's campaign against Russia, which was proclaimed as "the second Polish war".
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In 1809, Eugène's Army of Italy formed the right wing of Napoleon I's invasion of the Austrian Empire, winning a considerable victory at Raab and having a respectable share in the victory at Wagram. [8] [11] In 1812, Eugène de Beauharnais marched 27,000 troops of the Kingdom of Italy into Russia. [12]
It was created by Napoleon Bonaparte in March 1806 in order to strengthen control over the Netherlands by replacing the republican government with a monarchy. Since becoming emperor in 1804, Napoleon sought to extirpate republican tendencies in territories France controlled, and placed his third brother, Louis Bonaparte , on the throne of the ...
Although the Coalition Wars are the most prominent subset of conflicts of this era, some French Revolutionary Wars such as the French invasion of Switzerland (1798), and some Napoleonic Wars such as the French invasion of Russia (June – December 1812) and the Peninsular War (October 1807 – April 1814), are not counted amongst the "Coalition ...
Napoleon also refused to attach the military units consisting of Lithuanians to the Polish ones. Only on 14 July 1812 the Commission formally joined the General Confederation of the Kingdom of Poland, creating the united Kingdom of Poland. After Russian troops invaded Lithuanian territory at the end of 1812, the Commission acted outside Lithuania.
Location of the Kingdom of Westphalia within the Confederation of the Rhine in 1808. The Kingdom of Westphalia was created by Napoleon in 1807 by merging territories ceded by the Kingdom of Prussia in the Peace of Tilsit, among them the region of the Duchy of Magdeburg west of the Elbe river, the Brunswick-Lüneburg territories of Hanover and Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and the Electorate of Hesse.
Four days later, 130 kilometers north of Grodno, near the city of Kovno, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte began to ferry troops across the Neman River to attack Kovno. [ 1 ] On June 24, from the city of Lomzha , the King of Westphalia , Jérôme Bonaparte , advances the right wing of the Great Army under the command of Brigadier General Allix de Vaux ...