Description: A map of central Europe during the time of Napoleon. Shows the location of the French Empire and its dependent states. Also shows areas under Austrian, Prussian, Swedish, and Savoyard rule. This map shows the expanded French Empire after the Papal States and Holland were incorporated into the empire. "The Papal States and Holland joined to the French Empire. — that Napoleon cared but little for the thunders of the Church is shown by his treatment of the Pope. Pius VII. Opposing his continental system, he emperor incorporated the Papal States with the French empire (1809). The Pope thereupon excommunicated Napoleon, who straightway arrested the Pontiff, dragged him over the Alps into France, and held him in captivity for four years. The year following the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire, Louis Bonaparte, king of Holland, sho disapproved of his brother's continental system, which was ruining the trade of the Dutch, abdicated the crown. Thereupon Napoleon incorporated Holland with France, on the ground that it was simply 'the sediment of the French rivers.'" —Myers, 1896
Source: P. V. N. Myers, A General History for Colleges and High Schools (Boston, MA: Ginn & Company, 1896) 680
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman. |
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