A report on Austrian Empire, German Confederation and Napoleon

The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, by Jacques-Louis David, 1812

The Austrian Empire in 1815, with the boundaries of the German Confederation in dotted lines

Boundaries (in red) of the German Confederation with Prussia in blue, Austria in yellow, and the rest of the German states in grey

Napoleon's father, Carlo Buonaparte, was Corsica's representative to the court of Louis XVI.

Statue of Napoleon as a schoolboy in Brienne, aged 15, by Louis Rochet (1853)

Karl von Schwarzenberg and the monarchs of Austria, Prussia, and Russia after the Battle of Leipzig, 1813

Chart: functioning of the German Confederation

Napoleon Bonaparte, aged 23, as lieutenant-colonel of a battalion of Corsican Republican volunteers. Portrait by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux

Monarchs of the member states of the German Confederation (with the exception of the Prussian king) meeting at Frankfurt in 1863

The Battle of Komárom during the Hungarian Revolution, 1849

Austrian chancellor and foreign minister Klemens von Metternich dominated the German Confederation from 1815 until 1848.

Journée du 13 Vendémiaire, artillery fire in front of the Church of Saint-Roch, Paris, Rue Saint-Honoré

Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole, by Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, (c. 1801), Musée du Louvre, Paris

Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph with his troops at the Battle of Solferino, 1859

Bonaparte during the Italian campaign in 1797

Metternich alongside Wellington, Talleyrand, and other European diplomats at the Congress of Vienna, 1815

Bonaparte Before the Sphinx (c. 1886) by Jean-Léon Gérôme, Hearst Castle

Battle of the Pyramids on 21 July 1798 by Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, 1808

The Austrian Empire, between 1816 and 1867

In Frankfurt at the Paulskirche, June 14th, 2008: The German navy commemorates the 160th anniversary of the decision of the Frankfurt Parliament to create the Reichsflotte.

General Bonaparte surrounded by members of the Council of Five Hundred during the Coup of 18 Brumaire, by François Bouchot

Ethnographic composition of the Austrian Empire (1855)

Bonaparte, First Consul, by Ingres. Posing the hand inside the waistcoat was often used in portraits of rulers to indicate calm and stable leadership.

Imperial standard of the Austrian Empire with the lesser coat of arms (used until 1915 for Austria-Hungary)

Silver coin: 5 francs_AN XI, 1802, Bonaparte, First Consul

Imperial standard of the Austrian Empire with the medium coat of arms (used until 1915 for Austria-Hungary)

Merchant ensign from 1786 until 1869 and naval and war ensign from 1786 until 1915 (de jure, de facto until 1918)

The Battle of Marengo was Napoleon's first great victory as head of state.

The 'hauskrone' of Rudolph II, later the imperial crown of the Austrian Empire

The 1803 Louisiana Purchase totalled 827,987 sqmi, doubling the size of the United States.

The Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David (1804)

Napoleon and the Grande Armée receive the surrender of Austrian General Mack after the Battle of Ulm in October 1805. The decisive finale of the Ulm Campaign raised the tally of captured Austrian soldiers to 60,000. With the Austrian army destroyed, Vienna would fall to the French in November.

Napoléon in his coronation robes by François Gérard, c. 1805

Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz, by François Gérard 1805. The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of Napoleon's many victories, where the French Empire defeated the Third Coalition.

Double-headed eagle at the Ministry of War in Vienna

The Iranian envoy Mirza Mohammed Reza-Qazvini meeting with Napoleon I at the Finckenstein Palace in West Prussia, 27 April 1807, to sign the Treaty of Finckenstein

Military districts in Hungarian part of the Empire in 1850

Napoleon reviewing the Imperial Guard before the Battle of Jena

The Treaties of Tilsit: Napoleon meeting with Alexander I of Russia on a raft in the middle of the Neman River

Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother, as King of Spain

Napoleon accepting the surrender of Madrid, 4 December 1808

Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, painted by Horace Vernet

The entry of Napoleon in Schönbrunn, Vienna

The French Empire at its greatest extent in 1812:

Napoleon watching the fire of Moscow in September 1812, by Adam Albrecht (1841)

Napoleon's withdrawal from Russia, painting by Adolph Northen

Napoleon's farewell to his Imperial Guard, 20 April 1814, by Antoine-Alphonse Montfort

Napoleon after his abdication in Fontainebleau, 4 April 1814, by Paul Delaroche

Napoleon leaving Elba on 26 February 1815, by Joseph Beaume (1836)

Napoleon's Return from Elba, by Charles de Steuben, 1818

Napoleon on Saint Helena, watercolor by Franz Josef Sandmann, c. 1820

Longwood House, Saint Helena, site of Napoleon's captivity

Frederick Marryat's sketch of Napoleon's body on his deathbed

Napoleon's tomb at Les Invalides in Paris

Napoleon's remains passing through Jamestown, St Helena on 13 October 1840

Napoleon on His Death Bed, by Horace Vernet, 1826

Situation of Napoleon's body when his coffin was reopened on St Helena, by Jules Rigo, 1840

Reorganisation of the religious geography: France is divided into 59 dioceses and 10 ecclesiastical provinces.

Leaders of the Catholic Church taking the civil oath required by the Concordat

Napoleon visiting the Palais Royal for the opening of the 8th session of the Tribunat in 1807, by Merry-Joseph Blondel

Napoleon is often represented in his green colonel uniform of the Chasseur à Cheval of the Imperial Guard, the regiment that often served as his personal escort, with a large bicorne and a hand-in-waistcoat gesture.

First remittance of the Légion d'Honneur, 15 July 1804, at Saint-Louis des Invalides, by Jean-Baptiste Debret (1812)

First page of the 1804 original edition of the Code Civil

Statue in Cherbourg-Octeville unveiled by Napoleon III in 1858. Napoleon I strengthened the town's defences to prevent British naval incursions.

The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya, showing Spanish resisters being executed by French troops

A mass grave of soldiers killed at the Battle of Waterloo

1814 caricature of Napoleon being exiled to Elba: the ex-emperor is riding a donkey backwards while holding a broken sword.

Ceramic pitcher of Bonaparte: Where is he going to. To Elba. (Musée de la Révolution française).

Bas-relief of Napoleon in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives

Joséphine, first wife of Napoleon, obtained the civil dissolution of her marriage under the Napoleonic Code, painting by Henri Frédéric Schopin, 1843

Marriage of Napoleon and Marie-Louise by Georges Rouget, 1843

Napoleon Crossing the Alps, romantic version by Jacques-Louis David in 1805

Bonaparte Crossing the Alps, realist version by Paul Delaroche in 1848

Along with Prussia, it was one of the two major powers of the German Confederation.

- Austrian Empire

The empire was proclaimed by Francis II in 1804 in response to Napoleon's declaration of the First French Empire, unifying all Habsburg possessions under one central government.

- Austrian Empire

In 1796, he began a military campaign against the Austrians and their Italian allies, scoring decisive victories and becoming a national hero.

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The Confederation was finally dissolved after the victory of the Kingdom of Prussia in the Seven Weeks' War over the Austrian Empire in 1866.

- German Confederation

Following defeat at the Battle of Austerlitz by the French under Napoleon in December 1805, Holy Roman Emperor Francis II abdicated, and the Empire was dissolved on 6 August 1806.

- German Confederation

Napoleon reorganized what had been the Holy Roman Empire, made up of about three hundred Kleinstaaterei, into a more streamlined forty-state Confederation of the Rhine; this helped promote the German Confederation and the unification of Germany in 1871.

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Congress of Vienna

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Frontispiece of the Acts of the Congress of Vienna

1. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
2. Joaquim Lobo Silveira, 7th Count of Oriola
3. António de Saldanha da Gama, Count of Porto Santo
4. 🇸🇪 Count Carl Löwenhielm
5. Louis Joseph Alexis, Comte de Noailles
6. Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich
7. André Dupin
8. Count Karl Robert Nesselrode
9. Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Count of Palmela
10. Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
11. Emmerich Joseph, Duke of Dalberg
12. Baron Johann von Wessenberg
13. Prince Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky
14. Charles Stewart, 1st Baron Stewart
15. 🇪🇸 Pedro Gómez Labrador, 1st Marquess of Labrador
16. Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty
17. Clear.gif (Recorder)
18. Friedrich von Gentz (Congress Secretary)
19. Baron Wilhelm von Humboldt
20. William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart
21. Prince Karl August von Hardenberg
22. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
23. Count Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg

Talleyrand proved an able negotiator for the defeated French.

In pink: territories left to France in 1814, but removed after the Treaty of Paris

Italian states after the Congress of Vienna with Austrian-annexed territories shown in yellow

The Congress of Vienna (Congrès de Vienne, Wiener Kongress) of 1814–1815 was an international diplomatic conference to reconstitute the European political order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.

In the settlement, France lost all its recent conquests, while Prussia, Austria and Russia made major territorial gains.

A German Confederation of 39 states, under the presidency of the Austrian Emperor, formed from the previous 300 states of the Holy Roman Empire. Only portions of the territories of Austria and Prussia were included in the Confederation (roughly the same portions that had been within the Holy Roman Empire).

Confederation of the Rhine

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Chart for the structure of the Confederation as projected in 1806

The Confederated States of the Rhine, simply known as the Confederation of the Rhine, also known as Napoleonic Germany, was a confederation of German client states established at the behest of Napoleon some months after he defeated Austria and Russia at the Battle of Austerlitz.

They, along with the reinstated states, Prussia, and Austria, formed the German Confederation.

Kingdom of Bavaria

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German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1805 and continued to exist until 1918.

The Kingdom of Bavaria (green) within the German Confederation (dark grey) in 1815

Aerial view of the Walhalla memorial of Ludwig I

Minister-President Ludwig von der Pfordten, who left office following Bavaria's defeat in the war in 1866

An 1890s photochrom print of Castle Neuschwanstein. This castle was designed and constructed during the reign of Ludwig II and remains a major tourist attraction in Bavaria.

Statue of Prince Regent Luitpold at the Justizpalast

King Ludwig III in Lwów (Lemberg), 1915 during World War I

The Kingdom of Bavaria in 1808, including Tyrol

The Electorate (1778) and the Kingdom of Bavaria (1815)

The Kingdom of Bavaria within the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806, including Tyrol

The Kingdom of Bavaria within the Confederation of the Rhine in 1812, including Salzburg

The Kingdom of Bavaria within the German Confederation in 1816, including the Rhenish Palatinate

Most of the border of modern Germany's Free State of Bavaria were established after 1814 with the Treaty of Paris, in which the Kingdom of Bavaria ceded Tyrol and Vorarlberg to the Austrian Empire while receiving Aschaffenburg and Würzburg.

Attempts by Prussia to reorganize the loose and un-led German Confederation were opposed by Bavaria and Austria, with Bavaria taking part in its own discussions with Austria and other allies in 1863, in Frankfurt, without Prussia and its allies attending.

When Napoleon abolished the Holy Roman Empire, and Bavaria became a kingdom in 1806, its land area doubled.