After the liberation of the Netherlands in 1813 by Prussian and Russian troops, William Frederik of Orange-Nassau, ( better known as William I of the Netherlands ) the son of the last stadtholder William V of Orange-Nassau and Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia, returned to The Hague to be granted the title Sovereign of the Netherlands on 2 December 1813.

After 1795, the House of Orange-Nassau faced a difficult period, surviving in exile at other European courts, especially those of Prussia and of England.

The current holders of the title are Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands ( Orange-Nassau ), Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia ( Hohenzollern ), and Guy, Marquis de Mailly-Nesle ( Mailly ).

Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand's eldest son and designated heir, Karl Georg August ( 1766 – 1806 ), married Frederika Luise Wilhelmine, Princess of Orange-Nassau, daughter of William V, Prince of Orange and Wilhelmina of Prussia, in 1790.

Gerhard Tersteegen ( November 25, 1697 – April 3, 1769 ), was a German Reformed religious writer, born at Moers, at that time the capital of a countship belonging to the house of Orange-Nassau ( it fell to Prussia in 1702 ), which formed a Protestant enclave in the midst of a Roman Catholic country.

Now Stalin made it clear that he meant to move Poland's western borders deep into Germany, back to the western Neisse-Oder River lines, taking not only East Prussia and all of Silesia but Pomerania and the tip of Brandenburg, back to and including Stettin.

St. Vojtěch was later made the patron saint of Bohemia, Poland, Hungary and Prussia.

Prussia, having effectively abandoned the coalition in the fall of 1794, made peace with revolutionary France at Basel in April 1795, and soon thereafter Spain, too, made peace with France.

On the foreign affairs front, in the Declaration of Pillnitz of August 1791, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, Count Charles of Artois, and King Frederick William II of Prussia made Louis XVI's cause their own.

As Minister President of Prussia 1862 – 90, Bismarck provoked wars that made Prussia dominant over Austria and France, and lined up the smaller German states behind Prussia.

Until the 1930s, when the Nazi government began a program of Germanization, and in 1945, when the Soviets annexed Prussia and made Old Prussian place-names illegal ,< ref name =" Sov Illegal ">

Frederick II of Prussia ( the Great ) figures prominently for having made very efficient use of the limited forces at his disposal, though Napoleon is perhaps the central figure.

In 1742, most of Silesia was seized by King Frederick the Great of Prussia in the War of the Austrian Succession and subsequently made the Prussian Province of Silesia.

Eugene, who was accompanied by Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia, made some attempts to relieve the siege, but never made any decisive attacks against the besieging army owing to its size and relatively poor quality of the troops under his command.

He was later made the patron saint of Bohemia, Poland, Hungary, and Prussia.

After Peter gained the throne in 1762, he withdrew from the Seven Years ' War and made peace with Prussia ( the " Miracle of the House of Brandenburg ").

The area of Prussian control was made up of territory from the former Prussian provinces of New East Prussia, Southern Prussia, New Silesia, and West Prussia.

Examples include Wittenberg, the old capital of the Saxon Elector State during the Holy Roman Empire, and seat of the National University made famous by Martin Luther and Melanchthon ( which was already done away with in 1817 by means of a merger with the Prussian University of Halle ), and Torgau, birthplace and place of residence of the Elector Frederick the Wise, which was incorporated into one of the new hybrids created by Prussia under the name Province of Saxony.

Charles made official overtures to her in 1703, and the match was encouraged by King Frederick of Prussia.

True, much of the trade had shifted to flags of convenience ( especially that of the U. S. A. and European neutrals like Prussia ), but the peace made the resurgence of the Dutch carrying trade fully practicable.

In one step, Prussia had effectively doubled its population and made huge gains in its industrial productivity.

The first scenario never made it because the Great Powers ( Great Britain, Prussia, Austria and Russia ) thought an independent Southern Netherlands / Belgium under an Austrian Prince was too weak and Austria was not interested in getting it back.

In 1815 following the Napoleonic Wars, Bonn became part of the Kingdom of Prussia.

In the 1815 provincial reorganization following the Napoleonic Wars, Elbing and its hinterland were included within Regierungsbezirk Danzig in West Prussia.

However, following the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Greater Poland was again partitioned, with the western part ( including Poznań ) going to Prussia.

England might have become a more " Puritan absolute monarchy ", as " existed in Sweden, Denmark, Saxony, and Prussia in the seventeenth century ", rather than following the path of parliamentary and civil reform that it did.

The Duchy of Warsaw, a small, semi-independent Polish state, was created in 1807 by Napoleon Bonaparte, following his defeat of Prussia.

After or just before the dissolution, the Electors of Bavaria, Württemberg, Saxony, and Hanover each took the title of king of his former electorate ( in the case of Hanover after regaining his lands following Napoleon's defeat in 1814 ) while the King of Prussia extended his royal title to cover his erstwhile Electorate of Brandenburg as well as the lands he held as king outside the imperial border.

During the 19th century, after Schleswig-Holstein had come under the government of Prussia ( from 1871 the German Empire ) following the Second Schleswig War in 1864, a combination of naval interests — the German navy wanted to link its bases in the Baltic and the North Sea without the need to sail around Denmark — and commercial pressure encouraged the development of a new canal.

The fortress, ancestral seat of the medieval Luxembourgers, was taken over by Prussian forces, following Napoleon's defeat, and Luxembourg became a member of the German Confederation with Prussia responsible for its defense.

However in 1815, following the Congress of Vienna, the region was returned to Prussia, and Poznań became the capital of the semi-autonomous Grand Duchy of Posen.

In 1793 the Kingdom of Prussia annexed the city following the Second Partition of Poland.

The following year the city, along with the rest of Prussia, became part of the new German Empire.

However, following the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Greater Poland was again partitioned, with the western part ( including Poznań ) going to Prussia.

In the years following the achievement of independence, Bulgaria was becoming increasingly militarized and was often referred to as " the Balkan Prussia ", with regard to its desire to revise the Treaty of Berlin through warfare.

# The Quadruple Alliance of March 1813 ( renewed on November 20, 1815 ); between the United Kingdom, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, aimed at upholding the settlement following the Napoleonic Wars: with France's admission in 1818, it became the Quintuple Alliance, though British government distaste for the other allies ' reactionary policies meant that it lapsed into ineffectiveness after the mid-1820s.

Denmark again attempted to integrate Schleswig, by creating a new common constitution ( the so called November Constitution ) for Denmark and Schleswig in 1863, but the German Confederation, led by Prussia and Austria, defeated the Danes in the Second War of Schleswig the following year.

Equally, he saw that friendship with Prussia and Britain, following its triumph in the Seven Years War, could offer more to aid his plans than either Austria or France.

Prussia lost the territory following Napoleon Bonaparte's victory in the War of the Fourth Coalition as the resultant 1807 Treaties of Tilsit awarded the area to the Russian Empire which then organized the region into the Belostok Oblast, with the city as the regional center.

After the annexation of most of western Royal Prussia in the 1772 First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, East Prussia was connected by land with the rest of the Prussian state and was reorganized as the Province of East Prussia the following year.

However, the Treaty of Versailles following World War I restored West Prussia to Poland and made East Prussia an exclave of Weimar Germany, while the Memel Territory was detached and was annexed by Lithuania in 1923.

Oswald described the journeys undertaken by him in the following 14 years in his autobiographical song " Es fügt sich ...", mentioning travels to Crete, Prussia, Lithuania, Crimea, Turkey, the Holy Land, France, Lombardy and Spain, as well as being shipwrecked in the Black Sea.