Administered within the Prussian Rhine Province, the town became part of the German Empire in 1871 during the Prussian-led unification of Germany.

Clausewitz served in the Rhine Campaigns ( 1793 – 1794 ) including the Siege of Mainz, when the Prussian army invaded France during the French Revolution, and served in the Napoleonic Wars from 1806 to 1815.

It was regarded as a Protestant custom by the Roman Catholic majority along the lower Rhine, and was spread there only by Prussian officials who were moved there in the wake of the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

Danish and Frisian were spoken predominantly in the north of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein and Dutch in the western border areas of the Prussia -- that is, Hanover, Westphalia and the Rhine Province.

It was formed from the northern part of the French Occupation Zone, which included parts of Bavaria ( the Rhenish Palatinate ), the southern parts of the Prussian Rhine Province ( including the District of Birkenfeld which formerly belonged to Oldenburg ), parts of the Prussian Province of Nassau ( see Hesse-Nassau ), and parts of Hesse-Darmstadt ( Rhinehessen on the western banks of the Rhine ); the constitution was legally confirmed by referendum on 18 May 1947.

Most of it became part of the Prussian Rhine Province.

The occupied area included portions of the Prussian Rhine Province and the Bavarian Rhenish Palatinate.

Prussia first set foot on the Rhine in 1609 by the occupation of the Duchy of Cleves and about a century later Upper Guelders and Moers also became Prussian.

This plan was discarded in favour of a defensive plan by Generals Charles Frossard and Bartélemy Lebrun, which called for the Army of the Rhine to remain in a defensive posture near the German border and repel any Prussian offensive.

Reconnaissance by General Frossard had identified only the Prussian 16th Infantry Division guarding the border town of Saarbrücken, right before the entire Army of the Rhine.

In a breakdown of the casualties, Frossard's II Corps of the Army of the Rhine suffered 621 casualties while inflicting 4, 300 casualties on the Prussian First Army under Steinmetz before the Pointe du Jour.

With the defeat of Marshal Bazaine's Army of the Rhine at Gravelotte, the French were forced to retire to Metz where they were besieged by over 150, 000 Prussian troops of the First and Second Armies.

In the German regions on the left bank of the Rhine ( Rhenish Palatinate and Prussian Rhine Province ), the former Duchy of Berg and the Grand Duchy of Baden, the Napoleonic code was in use until the introduction of the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch in 1900 as the first common civil code for the entire German Empire.

The new city was administered within the Prussian Rhine Province.

While the revolutionary government frantically raised fresh troops and reorganised its armies, a mostly Prussian allied army under Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick assembled at Coblenz on the Rhine.

The Prussian administration reorganized the territory as the Rhine Province ( also known as Rhenish Prussia ), a term continuing in the names of the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia.

A Prussian king first set foot on the Rhine in 1609 by the occupation of the Duchy of Cleves and about a century later Upper Guelders and Moers also became Prussian.

While the only recent war experience of the Prussian Army was in the War of the Polish Succession ( Rhine campaign of 1733 – 1735 ) it had largely been kept out of combat, since Prussia was not fully trusted by Austria.

In 1807 Prussian East Frisia and Jever were added to the kingdom but in 1809, after a British invasion, Holland had to give over all territories south of the river Rhine to France.

From 1815, it was part of the Prussian province of Pomerania.

Kolberg became part of the Prussian province of Pomerania in 1815, after the final defeat of Napoleon ; until 1872, it was administered within the Fürstenthum District (" Principality District ", recalling the area's former special status ), then it was within Landkreis Kolberg-Körlin.

In 1937 the Nazis passed the so-called Greater Hamburg Act, whereby the nearby Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg was expanded, to encompass towns that had formally belonged to the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein.

Up until 1945, the area of the current Polish voivodeship was actually a part of the Prussian province of ‘ Upper Silesia ’.

The region became a part of the Kingdom of Poland province of Royal Prussia with the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ), prospered with the grain trade from southern Poland to the royal city of Gdańsk and then sustained ravages and plagues brought by several Swedish and Prussian invasions during the 17th and early 18th centuries, and was forcefully removed from Kingdom of Poland and annexed into the Kingdom of Prussia as a result of the First Partition of Poland in 1772.

* Province of Posen, Prussian province, 1848 – 1918

Toruń was part of the area subject to Prussian and later German attempts to Germanise the province.

It remained a Prussian province until 1947.

The United States, on the other side, proclaimed the state of Greater Hesse ( Groß-Hessen ) on 19 September 1945, out of Hesse-Darmstadt and most of the former Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau.

The Prussian administration united Nassau, Frankfurt and Hesse-Kassel into the new Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau.

At the foundation of Lower Saxony in 1946 by the merger of the three former Free States of Brunswick, Oldenburg, Schaumburg-Lippe and the former Prussian province of Hanover the former two states became Verwaltungsbezirke ( roughly administrative regions of extended competence ) within Lower Saxony besides the less autonomous Prussian-style Regierungsbezirke comprising the former Province of Hanover and the tiny Schaumburg-Lippe.

After the Austrian defeat Nassau was annexed by Prussia and became part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau.

Frederick II of Prussia was elated with his success ; Prussia took most of the Polish Royal Prussia that stood between its possessions in the Kingdom of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg, taking Ermland ( Warmia ), Royal Prussia without the city of Danzig ( Gdańsk ) ( which in 1773 became a new province called West Prussia ), northern areas of Greater Poland along the Noteć River ( the Netze District ), and parts of Kuyavia, ( also the Prussian city of Thorn ).

After the Third Partition of Poland ( 1795 ) Dąbrowa was incorporated into the Prussian province of New Silesia.

Following the abdication of the last Margrave, Charles Alexander, from the principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth on 2 December 1791 its territories became part of a Prussian province.

Raeder was born into a middle-class family in Wandsbek in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein in the German Empire.

Administered under its German name Riesenburg, the town became part of the new Prussian province of West Prussia in 1773.

Having a taste for a country life, and none for teaching, he gave up his position as extraordinary professor at Heidelberg, and in 1845 bought an estate in the Prussian province of Saxony.

In 1867 the Prussian administration established twenty districts in its province of Schleswig-Holstein, among them the districts of Rendsburg and Eckernförde.

In 1937 it was moved to Prussia as the district of Eutin within the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein.

When Schleswig-Holstein became a Prussian province in 1865, the Prussian administration established the district of Segeberg.

The baneful influence of these antiquated principles was clearly shown in the maintenance of Königgratz-Josefstadt in 1866 as a strategic point, which was preferred to the defeat of the separated Prussian armies, and in the strange plans produced in Vienna for the campaign of 1859, and in the almost unintelligible Battle of Montebello in the same year.

He was the second and last Prussian duke of the Ansbach branch of the Hohenzollern family.

With the coronation of Frederick I in 1701 as king ( in Königsberg ), Berlin became the new capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( instead of Königsberg ); this was a successful attempt to centralize the capital in the very outspread Prussian Kingdom, and it was the first time the city began to grow.

Marlborough's anxiety was finally allayed when, just past noon, Colonel Cadogan reported that Eugene's Prussian and Danish infantry were in place – the order for the general advance was given.

Ten infantry colours were lost to the Bavarians, and hundreds of prisoners taken ; it was only through the leadership of Eugene and the Prussian Prince that the Imperialist infantry were prevented from abandoning the field.

However, the Prussian infantry was not there.

Although the various Baltic tribes were mentioned by ancient historians as early as 98 B. C., the first attestation of a Baltic language was in about 1350, with the creation of the Elbing Prussian Vocabulary, a German to Prussian translation dictionary.

The dye Prussian blue was first accidentally made around 1706, by heating substances containing iron and carbon and nitrogen.

Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz (; July 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831 ) was a Prussian soldier and military theorist who stressed the moral ( in modern terms, " psychological ") and political aspects of war.

Clausewitz's father was once a lieutenant in the Prussian army and held a minor post in the Prussian internal revenue service.

At the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt on October 14, 1806 – when Napoleon invaded Prussia and defeated the massed Prussian-Saxon army commanded by Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick – he was captured, one of the 25, 000 prisoners captured that day as the Prussian army disintegrated.

In 1815, the Russo-German Legion was integrated into the Prussian Army and Clausewitz re-entered Prussian service.

His conclusions were influenced by his experiences in the Prussian Army, which was often in an intelligence fog due partly to the superior abilities of Napoleon's system but even more to the nature of war.

In 1209, Christian was commissioned by the Pope to be responsible for the Prussian missions between the Vistula and Neman Rivers and in 1212 he was appointed bishop.

His seat as a bishop remained at Oliwa Abbey on the western side of the Vistula, whereas the pagan Prussian ( later East Prussian ) territory was on the eastern side of it.

Duke Konrad of Masovia still was not capable to end the Prussian attacks on his territory and in 1224 began to conduct negotiations with the Teutonic Knights under Grand Master Hermann von Salza in order to strengthen his forces.