Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

The deplorable situation of Germany stirred him to the depths and led him to deliver the famous Addresses to the German Nation ( 1808 ) which guided the uprising against Napoleon.

On 14 October Napoleon defeated the Prussians at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt, marched through Germany and defeated the Russians on 14 June 1807 at Friedland.

On 19 May 1940 Ribbentrop met the new Italian Ambassador Dino Alfieri, who described the meeting as follows :" He commented at length on the " dazzling " successes of the German armies, extolling the military genius of the Führer ... who had " revealed himself as the greatest military genius since Napoleon "... He spoke of the inevitable clash between the young nations and the old ; of the necessity of breaking the ring with which the Judaeo-democratic-plutocratic powers were trying to encircle Germany and Italy ; and of the need to create a new European civilization.

* 1813 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia.

The French Emperor, Napoleon III, feared that a powerful Germany would change the balance of power in Europe ( the French opposition politician Adolphe Thiers had correctly observed that it had really been France who had been defeated at Königgrätz ).

Napoleon III was taken prisoner at Sedan and kept in Germany for a while in case Bismarck had need of him to head a puppet regime ; he later died in exile in England in 1873.

A German gymnastic movement was started by Turnvater ( turners ' father ) Friedrich Ludwig Jahn in the early 19th century when Germany was occupied by Napoleon.

Defeated by Napoleon at Ligny, he re-buffs advice by General Gneisenau, who says he does not trust " the English ", to retreat eastwards towards Germany, and instead retreats north to Wavre so as to maintain contact with Wellington.

The city became the centre of the German Liberation movement against Napoleon, and the gathering place for volunteers from all over Germany, with the Iron Cross military decoration founded by Frederick William III of Prussia in early March 1813.

In 1806, a Fourth Coalition was set up, on 14 October Napoleon defeated the Prussians at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt, marched through Germany and defeated the Russians on 14 June 1807 at Friedland.

It also included the epic Battle of Leipzig in October, 1813 ( also known as the Battle of Nations ), which was the largest battle of the Napoleonic wars, which drove Napoleon out of Germany.

These principalities were confiscated when Napoleon invaded Germany ( 1806 ) and William supported his Prussian relatives.

Napoleon III was taken to Germany, and released later.

To relieve pressure from the expected German attack into Alsace-Lorraine, Napoleon III and others in the French high command planned at the outset of the war to launch a seaborne invasion of northern Germany.

The French Marines and naval infantry tasked with the invasion of northern Germany were subsequently dispatched to bolster the French Army of Châlons, where they were captured at the Battle of Sedan along with Napoleon III.

In July 1806, Napoleon formed the Confederation of the Rhine out of the many tiny German states which constituted the Rhineland and most other western parts of Germany.

One can reasonably say that Napoleon could count on no more than 450, 000 men in Germany — which left him outnumbered about four to one.

During the dozen or more years he spent in Germany he was entrusted with several honourable and difficult missions, which brought him into contact with the courts of Dresden, Vienna, Munich and Württemberg, as well as with Napoleon I of France.

This he would not do, much to the dismay of Napoleon, who demanded that Louis would raise a large army to guard the North from British invasion, and to aid the French armies in Germany and Spain.

Made King of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created by Napoleon from the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ), with its capital in Kassel ( then: Cassel ), Jérôme married HRH Princess Catharina of Württemberg, the daughter of Frederick I, King of Württemberg, in a marriage arranged by Napoleon.

After six months as a prisoner in Germany Napoleon spent the last few years of his life in exile in England, with Eugénie and their only son.

After Napoleon and then Joachim Murat had left the retreating army, Eugène took command of the remnants and led it back to Germany in 1813.

The Institute of Medical Psychology at the University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany has set up a Research Department Ayahuasca / Santo Daime, which in May 2008 held a 3-day conference under the title The globalization of Ayahuasca-An Amazonian psychoactive and its users.

In October 2004, the company set up the dedicated AMEP engine production plant within the Ford Germany Niehl, Cologne plant.

Marlborough, realising the only way to ignore Dutch wishes was by the use of secrecy and guile, set out to deceive his Dutch allies by pretending to simply move his troops to the Moselle – a plan approved of by The Hague – but once there, he would slip the Dutch leash and link up with Austrian forces in southern Germany.

In 2006, Bear Family Records of Germany released what is considered to be the most comprehensive ( yet still incomplete ) collection of Haley's 1946-1950 recordings as part of its Haley box set Rock n ' Roll Arrives.

At the same time in Germany Goethe cooperated with Schiller on a series of ballads, some of which were later set to music by Schubert.

After a journey through southern Germany and Switzerland, and a visit to Strassburg, he returned to Leipzig, and set to work upon a critical study of the New Testament text.

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It was only when Paul Davidson, the owner of a chain of cinemas, brought Asta Nielsen and Urban Gad to Germany from Denmark in 1911, and set up a production company, Projektions-AG " Union " ( PAGU ), for them, that a change-over to renting prints began.

The combination of Bismarck, Defense Minister Albrecht von Roon, and Field Marshal Helmut von Moltke set the stage for victories over Denmark, Austria, and France, and led to the unification of Germany.

The modern set of rules was published on 29 October 1917 by Max Heiser, Karl Schelenz, and Erich Konigh from Germany.

Behind the long table set up on the steps of the Rathaus Schöneberg were US and German dignitaries, including Dean Rusk ( Kennedy's Secretary of State ), Lucius D. Clay ( the US administrator of Germany ), Konrad Adenauer ( the German chancellor ), Willy Brandt, and Otto Bach ( President of the German House of Representatives ).

In the Soviet Occupation Zone of post-war Germany, the Soviets set up ten NKVD-run " special camps " subordinate to the gulag.

That same day, on 21 March 1939, Ribbentrop presented a set of demands to the Polish Ambassador Józef Lipski about Poland allowing the Free City of Danzig to return to Germany in such violent and extreme language that it led to the Poles to fear their country was on the verge of an immediate German attack.

Imperial Germany set up a protectorate over the Sultan of Zanzibar's coastal possessions in 1885, followed by the arrival of Sir William Mackinnon's British East Africa Company ( BEAC ) in 1888, after the company had received a royal charter and concessionary rights to the Kenya coast from the Sultan of Zanzibar for a 50-year period.

The agreement formally set the border between Germany and the Soviet Union between the Igorka river and the Baltic Sea.

Some nations, with either exclusively proportional representation or — as is the case with Germany — additional member systems, require a party list to achieve an election threshold — a set minimum percentage of votes to receive any seats.

Clement X confirmed the exemptions granted by Pope Gregory XIII ( 1572 – 85 ) to the German College at Rome in 1671 ; and then, on 16 October 1672, he ordered the pupils to swear that at the close of their studies they would set out for Germany without a day's delay.

On September 24, 2004 a Frankfurt, Germany concert was recorded at The Festhalle for DVD ( titled R30: Live in Frankfurt ), which was released November 22, 2005 ; a complete version of the R30 Frankfurt set ( the original DVD release omitted eight songs ) was released on Blu-ray on December 8, 2009.

Boniface again set out for what is now Germany, baptized thousands, and dealt with the problems of many other Christians who had fallen out of contact with the regular hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church.

In Europe, the license process occurred at the tail end of the technology bubble, and the auction mechanisms for allocation set up in some countries resulted in some extremely high prices being paid for the original 2100 MHz licenses, notably in the UK and Germany.

As the Loewe set had only one tube socket, it was able to substantially undercut the competition since, in Germany, state tax was levied by the number of sockets.

Germany set out to establish a large empire in Europe.

* August 31 – The Young Plan, which set the total World War I reparations owed by Germany at US $ 26, 350, 000, 000 to be paid over a period of 58½ years, is finalized.