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Napoleon, Ch. 19 Tilsit

A continental army, with willing recruits from conquered lands . . . Attacks in Poland . . . Prussia . . . war with Russia . .. Tsar Alexander seeks armistice . . . Europe divided into zones of Russian and French influence . . . allied against Britain . . . Prussia's Frederick William left out . . . Zenith of powers, certain there would be no moment on the continent where Russia, Austria, and Prussia would all be against him . . . Tilsit happiest moment of his life, he later says . . . returns to France after an absence of 300 days after a 100 hour night-and-day carriage ride.  Napoleon moved fast!

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