Wars of Liberation and the New Patriotism History 323 / Jan. 18, 2013
The Confederation of the Rhine ( ) = all German states save Prussia and Austria
J. G. Fichte Speeches to the German Nation (1808)
Ernst Moritz Arndt ( ) Poem: The German Fatherland (1813) The German Fatherland
“Gym father” Jahn
Napoleon’s Continental System,
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 , 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,
The German Confederation (est. 1815)