00:00The Treaty of the Confederation of the Rhine is a treaty signed on July 12, 1806 in Paris between the representative
00:05of the Emperor of the French, Napoleon Bonaparte, and those of the 16 German princes who left the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire
00:11Germanic Roman to join the Confederation of the Rhine as a sovereign state.
00:16Context: On August 6, 1806, Francis II of the Holy Roman Empire, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicated after having been
00:23defeated at Austerlitz and having signed the Treaty of Pressburg in December 1805.
00:29Napoleon imposed his vision of Europe; the states that took part in the Confederation provided France with
00:34troops and, in return, are enlarged at the expense of the episcopal principalities and free cities.
00:39France recovered all territories west of the Rhine through the Treaty of Uneville in 1801.
00:45and, with the establishment of the Confederation, secures a solid bulwark against the nations of Europe
00:49central, including the Kingdom of Prussia, the Austrian Empire and the Russian Empire.
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