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Close-upA close-up on: Tilsit (July 1807)The Grande Armée’s perfect victory over the Russian Army at Friedland had brought the Polish Campaign to an end. After an armistice signed on 20 June, the Czar Alexander I and the Emperor Napoleon I signed a peace treaty on 7 July, 1807, in the…
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Close-upA close-up on: Trafalgar, 21 October, 1805On 21 October, 1805, the allied Franco-Spanish fleet under Admiral Villeneuve was ‘annihilated’ by the British fleet under Admiral Nelson.