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Tango0121 Aug 2026 1:49 p.m. PST

…Prussian invasion of Austrian Galicia, 1811)


"You will all remember that following Austria's defeat by France in 1809, Russia and Prussia decided to make a land grab of Austrian Poland, triggered by the Princess Marie Louise Incident at the August 1811 Great Party (of which we, as gentleman, of course cannot discuss in public, and would never dream of referring to it as the Marie Louise Affaire).

But what is strange is the brief campaign and battle are all but expunged from the records of that time. Fortunately, some papers have come into our posession that shed some light on this campaign.

In essence, after the Incident, Prussia and Russia invaded Galicia, and Austria immediately invoked the 1809 agreement with France. Napoleon gathered all the "French" Poles and along with some French. As with Austria in 1812, it was enough to show willing but not enough to annoy Russia and Prussia…"


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