"The secret intelligence from Tilsit" Topic

NEW LIGHT ON THE EVENTS SURROUNDING THE BRITISH BOMBARDMENT
OF COPENHAGEN IN 1807.

"‘The secret intelligence from Tilsit' is a murky aspect of a much larger story – the upheavals that turned international relations in Europe upside down in the last seven months of 1807.1 In early June 1807, Napoleon was the master of continental western Europe. Spain was his ally, he controlled mainland Italy and the Low Countries and, since crushing the Prussian army at Jena in October 1806, virtually the whole of Germany and Poland. He was opposed in northern Europe by a coalition made up of Russia, Prussia, Sweden and Britain. There was some fighting in north-western Germany, where the Swedes held out in the province of Swedish Pomerania, but the main theatre of operations was in eastern Poland, where Napoleon faced the main Russian field army. The emperor of Russia, Alexander I, was bitter that he carried the main burden of the war alone – Austria, the only neutral great power, refused to enter the war against France, and Britain had failed to mount any kind of diversion that might relieve the pressure on Russia by landing forces somewhere in northern Germany. When Napoleon inflicted a severe defeat on the Russians and what was left of the Prussian army at Friedland on 14 June 1807, Alexander was quick to think in terms of…"
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