Mediaeval and modern history . arched in triumph throughVienna to the field of Austerlitz beyond,where he gained one of his most mem-orable victories over the combinedarmies of Austria and Russia, number-ing more than eighty thousand was now shorn of large tractsof her dominions,^ including Venetia,which Napoleon^ added to the king-dom of Italy. ^- 621. The Reorganization of Germany; the Confederation of theRhine; End of the Holy Roman Empire (1806).—That recon-struction of the Germanic body which Napoleon had begun afterthe battles of Marengo and Hohenlinden (sec. 610) was nowsubs
Mediaeval and modern history . arched in triumph throughVienna to the field of Austerlitz beyond,where he gained one of his most mem-orable victories over the combinedarmies of Austria and Russia, number-ing more than eighty thousand was now shorn of large tractsof her dominions,^ including Venetia,which Napoleon^ added to the king-dom of Italy. ^- 621. The Reorganization of Germany; the Confederation of theRhine; End of the Holy Roman Empire (1806).—That recon-struction of the Germanic body which Napoleon had begun afterthe battles of Marengo and Hohenlinden (sec. 610) was nowsubstantially completed, save as regards Prussia and guiding principle here was to create in WesternGermany a small number of states which should be bound to him-self by selfish interests and strong enough to be useful as allies,and which should constitute barrier states between France on theone side and Austria and Prussia on the other. Both of theselatter states were to be kept weak and dependent upon Fig. 94. — William Pitt,Son of William Pitt,Earl of Chatham(After a painting byThomas Gainsborough) 9 The Treaty of Pressburg (Dec. 26, 1805) arranged affairs between Austria andFrance. 556 THE NAPOLEONIC EMPIRE In pursuance of this plan Napoleon ultimately reduced thethree hundred and more states comprising the Germanic systemto about forty. It was the ecclesiastical states, the free imperialcities, and the petty states of the minor princes which sufferedextinction, their lands being bestowed upon the princes of thestates selected for survival. Among the rulers especially favoredat this time were the Elector of Bavaria and the Duke of Wtir-temberg, both of whom were made kings and given enough terri-tory to enable them to maintain becomingly this new Margrave of Baden was also made a grand duke, and hisdominions were enlarged. All these princes formed marriagealliances with the family of Napoleon. These favored states, together with others
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