Dear Journal
I write to you in October of 1806, the Napoleonic Era. Napoleon has intervened in German affairs and my homeland of Prussia is scared. He just keeps winning, and even with the help of Russia in battle, Alexander I had to ask for peace. Everyday I waited for our King, Frederick William III, to return from the shore with the results. He arrived today with news. “ In the subsequent treaties of Tilsit, Prussia lost half of its population, while Russia accepted Napoleon’s recognition of western and central Europe and promised to enforce Napoleon’s economic blockade against British goods”(717).Napoleon is greedy. He sees himself as an Emporer to all of Europe when really he is only the Emperor to France. He has built a Grand Empire which consists of three parts. We are in the third part along with Austria and Russia. With this he expects us to support him and cease trade with Britian. Russia has been doing very well in war. Hopefull we will soon desert Naploeon and join Russia and Great Britain.
Until next time,
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