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Alexander I Alexander I
Alexander I 1777-1825, czar of Russia (1801-25), son of Paul I (in whose murder he may have taken an indirect part). In the first years of his reign the liberalism of his Swiss tutor, Frédéric César de La Harpe , seemed to influence Alexander. He suppressed the secret... Read more
War of 1812 War of 1812
War of 1812 armed conflict between the United States and Great Britain, 1812-15. It followed a period of great stress between the two nations as a result of the treatment of neutral countries by both France and England during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars , in which the latter two... Read more
Borodino Borodino
Borodino , village, central European Russia, c.70 mi (110 km) W of Moscow. It was the site, on Sept. 7, 1812, of a battle between Napoleon's Grande Armée and Gen. Mikhail Kutuzov's Russian forces defending Moscow. The battle, which cost some 108,000 casualties, is described in Tolstoy's War... Read more
Bagrationovsk Bagrationovsk
Bagrationovsk, Kaliningrad/Russia Eylau Founded in 1336 in what was then East Prussia. Eylau has a Slavonic origin with the meaning of ‘mud’ or ‘silt’ (in modern Russian, il). In 1946, after the Soviet Union had annexed the region, it was renamed after Pyotr Bagration... Read more
Confederation of the Rhine Confederation of the Rhine
Confederation of the Rhine league of German states formed by Emperor Napoleon I in 1806 after his defeat of the Austrians at Austerlitz . Among its members were the newly created kingdoms of Bavaria and Württenberg (see Pressburg, Treaty of ), the grand duchies of Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, and... Read more
Mikhail Ilarionovich Kutuzov Mikhail Ilarionovich Kutuzov
Mikhail Ilarionovich Kutuzov , 1745-1813, Russian field marshal. He fought against the Polish Confederation of Bar (see Bar, Confederation of ) and served in the Russo-Turkish Wars of 1768-74 and 1787-92, in which he lost an eye. He took part (1805) in the battle of Austerlitz, which was fought... Read more
Battle of Borodino Battle of Borodino
BORODINO, BATTLE OF Borodino was the climactic battle of the Campaign of 1812, which took place on September 7. Napoleon had invaded Russia hoping to force a battle near the frontier, but he pursued when the Russian armies retreated. His efforts to force a decisive battle at Smolensk having failed,... Read more
Treaty of Bucharest Treaty of Bucharest
BUCHAREST, TREATY OF The Treaty of Bucharest brought the Turkish war of 1806–1812 to an end. Having advanced the Russian frontier to the Dniester River in 1792, Catherine the Great intended to include Moldavia and Wallachia within a Dacian Kingdom under one of her favorites. The immediate... Read more
Algerine War Algerine War
Algerine War , early 19th-century conflict between Algiers and the United States. The Tripolitan War (1801-5) had brought a temporary halt to the pirate activities of the Barbary States. However, during the subsequent Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 the Barbary pirates renewed their predatory... Read more
George Mifflin Dallas George Mifflin Dallas
DALLAS, GEORGE MIFFLIN George Mifflin Dallas was born July 10, 1792, to statesman alexander james dallas. He graduated from Princeton University in 1810 and was admitted to the bar three years later. In 1813, statesman Albert Gallatin was dispatched to Russia for the purpose of securing Russian... Read more

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