Many members of the coalition had previously been fighting France as part of the Third Coalition, and there was no intervening period of general peace. In 1806, Prussia joined a renewed coalition, fearing the rise in French power after the defeat of Austria and establishment of the French-sponsored Confederation of the Rhine. Prussia and Russia mobilized for a fresh campaign, and Prussian troops massed in Saxony.
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| - Many members of the coalition had previously been fighting France as part of the Third Coalition, and there was no intervening period of general peace. In 1806, Prussia joined a renewed coalition, fearing the rise in French power after the defeat of Austria and establishment of the French-sponsored Confederation of the Rhine. Prussia and Russia mobilized for a fresh campaign, and Prussian troops massed in Saxony.
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| Strength
| - Bavaria: 24,000
- France: 200,000
- Great Britain: 10,000
- Holland: 12,000–20,000
- Italy: 5,000–40,000
- Polish Legions: 30,000
- Prussia: 200,000
- Rhine Confederation: 16,000
- Russia: 140,000
- Saxony: 20,000
- Saxony: 6,000
- Spain: 6,000
- Sweden: 20,000
- Total: 308,500
- Total: 390,000
- Wurttemberg: 9,500
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| Commander
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- Napoleon I
- Jean Lannes
- Joachim Murat
- Alexander I
- Duke of Brunswick
- Michel Ney
- Eugène de Beauharnais
- Louis Alexandre Berthier
- Louis-Nicolas Davout
- Frederick William III
- Guillaume Brune
- Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
- Pierre Augereau
- Jérôme Bonaparte
- Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
- General Golitsyn
- Anton Wilhelm von L'Estocq
- Count Tauentzien
- Count von Bennigsen
- Count von Kalckreuth
- Edouard Mortier
- Ernst von Rüchel
- King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden
- Louis Bonaparte
- Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg
- Nicholas Soult
- Prince Louis Ferdinand
Duke of Württemberg
- Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
- Queen Louise
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| - The French Army marches through Berlin in 1806.
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| Result
| - French victory, Treaties of Tilsit
*Prussia lost one half of its territory
*Creation of the Duchy of Warsaw
*Franco-Russian alliance
*Promulgation of the Continental System
*Hostilities resume in 1808 with the commencement of the Peninsular War and expanded in 1809 with the formation of a Fifth coalition against France
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| - Confederation of the Rhine
- Holland
- Saxony
- French Empire
- Swiss Confederation
- Etruria
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* Saxony
Polish Legions
- Fourth Coalition:
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| Place
| - Saxony, Prussia, Poland, East Prussia
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| Conflict
| - War of the Fourth Coalition
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| - Many members of the coalition had previously been fighting France as part of the Third Coalition, and there was no intervening period of general peace. In 1806, Prussia joined a renewed coalition, fearing the rise in French power after the defeat of Austria and establishment of the French-sponsored Confederation of the Rhine. Prussia and Russia mobilized for a fresh campaign, and Prussian troops massed in Saxony. Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians in a lightning campaign that culminated at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt on 14 October 1806. French forces under Napoleon occupied Prussia, pursued the remnants of the shattered Prussian Army, and captured Berlin on 25 October 1806. They then advanced all the way to East Prussia, Poland and the Russian frontier, where they fought an inconclusive battle against the Russians at Eylau on 7–8 February 1807. Napoleon's advance on the Russian frontier was briefly checked during the spring as he revitalized his army. Russian forces were finally crushed by the French at Friedland on 14 June 1807, and three days later Russia asked for a truce. By the Treaties of Tilsit in July 1807, France made peace with Russia, which agreed to join the Continental System. The treaty however, was particularly harsh on Prussia as Napoleon demanded much of Prussia's territory along the lower Rhine west of the Elbe, and in what was part of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Respectively, these acquisitions were incorporated into his brother Jérôme Bonaparte's new Kingdom of Westphalia, and established the Duchy of Warsaw (ruled by his new ally the king of Saxony). The end of the war saw Napoleon master of almost all of western and central continental Europe, except for Spain, Portugal, Austria and several smaller states.
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