Napoleon was ‘especially harsh’ on Prussia in 1806 and in Tilsit. The Prussians had started a war against France. And Frederick William was lucky that he still had a throne and a country after Tilsit, thanks to the Tsar interceding on his behalf at Tilsit.

Prussia was harsh in their treatment of the former states of the Confederation of the Rhine and the Rhinelanders found Prussian rule both ‘harsh and foreign.’ Saxony was treated as a subject nation, forty percent of it being forcibly annexed as Prussian territory. This harsh treatment led to the mutiny by those Saxon troops who had been forcibly conscripted into the Prussian service when their country was divided unwillingly.

How did the Prussians treat those Westphalians that came under their rule in 1814?

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