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The monument was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806, and its iconographic program pitted heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail.
* 1806 – Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
* 1806 – The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
In the course of the war of the Fourth Coalition against Napoleon, troops under Bernadotte occupied the neutral Lübeck after a battle against Blücher on November 6, 1806.
Much of Clausewitz's thinking was based on his experience as a Prussian war planner concerned with how to use popular forces in an insurrectionary struggle against the much-superior French forces which occupied Prussia after 1806 — how, in short, to wage a " Spanish War in Germany.
As a reward for his services at Austerlitz ( 2 December 1805 ) he became the 1st Sovereign Prince of Ponte Corvo ( 5 June 1806 ), but during the campaign against Prussia, in the same year, was severely reproached by Napoleon for not participating with his army corps in the battles of Jena and Auerstädt, though close at hand.
Within months of the collapse of the Third Coalition, the Fourth Coalition ( 1806 – 07 ) against France was formed by Prussia, Russia, Saxony, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
The county is named for the Stanislaus River, first discovered by a European, Gabriel Moraga, in 1806, and later renamed Rio Estanislao in honor of Estanislao, a mission-educated renegade Native American chief who led a band of Indians in a series of battles against Mexican troops until finally being defeated by General Mariano Vallejo in 1826.
Built in 1806 as a defence against Napoleon, it has also been a Coast Guard lookout, a family home, a golf clubhouse and a World War II Naval mine control post.
For example, his Violin Concerto ( 1806 ) opens with four solo timpani strokes, and the scherzo of his Ninth Symphony ( 1824 ) sets the timpani against the orchestra in a sort of call and response.
Friedland effectively ended the War of the Fourth Coalition ( 1806 – 1807 ) against Napoleon.
The Vellore Mutiny of 1806 was one of the earliest upsurges against the British rule in India.
In fact the Sepoy Mutiny of 1806 that broke out inside the Velor fought against the British authority is considered to be a prelude to the Great Revolt of 1857, which is often described by some historians as the the First Indian War of Independence.
When in the war against Prussia ( 1806 – 7 ) the emperor invaded Poland and the Jews rendered great services to his army, he remarked, laughing, " The sanhedrin is at least useful to me.
In 1806 the Janissaries, with support of the ulema and the provincial governors, revolted against the Sultan and his new force and replaced him with Mustafa IV.
The regiment was founded in 1675 and dissolved in 1806 after the Prussian defeat against Napoleon.
In 1806, after Napoleon's victory in the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt, Kotzebue fled to Russia and, in the safety of his estate in Estonia, wrote many satirical articles against Napoleon Bonaparte, published in his journals Die Biene ( The Bee ) and Die Grille ( The Cricket ).
The result was the impeachment of Dundas in 1806, on the initiative of Samuel Whitbread, for the misappropriation of public money ; and though it ended in an acquittal, and nothing more than formal negligence lay against him, he never again held office.
As a response to the naval blockade of the French coasts enacted by the British government on the 16 May 1806, Napoleon issued the Berlin Decree on the 21 November 1806, which brought into effect a large-scale embargo against British trade.
The reason for perpetrating this royally sanctioned coup d ' état was that the estates, despite a royal prohibition, had taken to the courts to appeal against royal statutes, specifically the statute of 30 April 1806 regarding the raising of a Pomeranian army.
But when Prussia, after it turned against the French Empire, was defeated in the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt ( November 11, 1806 ), King Frederick William III was forced to temporarily flee to remote Memel.
In the war of 1806 against Napoleon, Barclay took a distinguished part in the Battle of Pultusk ( December 1806 ) and was wounded at the Battle of Eylau ( 7 February 1807 ), where his conduct won him promotion to the rank of lieutenant-general.

1806 and repeal
Samuel Romilly managed to repeal the death penalty for theft in 1806, but repealing it for other similar offences brought in a political element that had previously been absent.

1806 and Pitt
Dundas put a brake on intellectual and social change through his ruthless manipulation of patronage in alliance with Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, until he lost power in 1806.
* 1759 – William Pitt the Younger, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1806 )
* 1806 – William Pitt Fessenden, 26th United States Secretary of the Treasury ( 1864 – 65 ) ( d. 1869 )
For the next 17 years until 1801 ( and again from 1804 to 1806 ), Pitt, the Tory, was Prime Minister in the same sense that Walpole, the Whig, had been earlier.
* William Pitt the Younger ( 1759 – 1806 ), who also served as Prime Minister ; never married.
* May 28 – William Pitt the Younger, statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1806 )
Although many of the Whigs who had joined with Pitt would eventually return to the fold, joining again with Fox in the Ministry of All the Talents following Pitt's death in 1806.
The second phase of fort-building ( 1806 – 1819 ) included Fort Pitt ( later used as a hospital and the site of the first Army Medical School ).
William Pitt the Younger ( 28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806 ) was a British politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
" Pitt, William ( 1759 – 1806 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ( 2004 ); online 2009 ; accessed 12 Sept 2011
" Pitt died in the house in 1806.
Charles James Fox PC ( 24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806 ), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned thirty-eight years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and who was particularly noted for being the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger.
When Pitt died on 23 January 1806, Fox was the last remaining great political figure of the era, and could no longer be denied a place in government.
Fox died – still in office – at Chiswick House, west of London, in 1806, not eight months after the younger Pitt.
In the long-term the Grenvillites were revived by William Pitt the younger who served as Prime Minister from 1784 and dominated British politics until his death in 1806.
William Pitt the Younger, who made it his home for twenty years — longer than any First Lord before or since — from 1783 to 1801 and from 1804 to 1806, referred to it as " My vast, awkward house.
Pitt died in January 1806.
When William Pitt died in 1806, the King asked Liverpool to accept the post of Prime Minister, but he refused, as he believed he lacked a governing majority.
* John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham 1801 – 1806
** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: King George III ( 1801 – 1820 ); Prince Regent George ( 1811 – 1820 ); Prime Ministers William Pitt the Younger ( 1801, 1804 – 06 ), Henry Addington ( 1801 – 04 ), The Lord Grenville ( 1806 – 07 ), The Duke of Portland ( 1807 – 09 ), Spencer Perceval ( 1809 – 1812 ), The Earl of Liverpool ( 1812 – 1827 )
Having in 1804 been chosen to represent Liskeard, he was on the restoration of the Pitt ministry appointed secretary of the treasury, holding office till the dissolution of the ministry after the death of Pitt in January 1806.
Arguably the first national unity government in any country was the " Ministry of All the Talents " that led the United Kingdom for about a year after the death of William Pitt the Younger in 1806, during the Napoleonic Wars.
* William Pitt the Younger ( 1759 – 1806 ), his son and Prime Minister of Great Britain 1783 – 1801 and 1804 – 1806

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