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But the different member states of the confederation used their flags for themselves. The member states of the Confederation of the Rhine had not been part of France, but had accepted Napoleon in his function as "protector". This fact doesn't make the Confederation of the Rhine a part of France. So the flag of France is no official symbol for ...
The discussion, which city was better for the ability of defence for the confederation, reached a polemic climax in the 1830s. Austria favoured the coverage of its own borders and a defensive concept for southern Germany in Ulm. The south German states instead favoured Rastatt to strengthen their own defence at the Upper Rhine.
Borders of the German Confederation, c. 1840 The Rhine as France's eastern border, 1806. The Rhine crisis of 1840 was a diplomatic crisis between the Kingdom of France and the German Confederation, caused by the demand by French minister Adolphe Thiers that the river Rhine be reinstated as France's border in the east, at a loss of some 32,000 km 2 (12,000 sq mi) of German territory.
Its population was about 1.6 million and was divided into numerous small states. In 1806, all of the Rhenish princes all joined the Confederation of the Rhine , a puppet state of Napoleon. France took direct control of the Rhineland until 1814 and radically and permanently liberalized its government, society and economy.
German Confederation – 1815. North German Confederation – 1870. A confederation of German client-states of the First French Empire. An attempted partial resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire after the Napoleonic wars. A Prussian-dominated successor to the German Confederation following the 1866 Austro-Prussian War.
A close-up on: the creation of the Confederation of the Rhine, 12 July, 1806. After having sketched out his ideas regarding France and German lands in a letter to Talleyrand (Minister of Foreign Affairs) dated October 1805, Napoleon went further in the spring of 1806, creating a confederation of small western German states grouped around the ...
