Curated playlist
Frederick William III of Prussia
- Battle of Lützen (1813)At Lützen in 1813, Napoleon rode among disordered young soldiers to pull them back into the fight.
- Battle of Bautzen (1813)At the 1813 Battle of Bautzen, Marshal Ney got distracted and Napoleon's trap failed.
- Altes MuseumBerlin's Altes Museum stood for art and science among symbols of worldly, military and divine power.
- Treaties of TilsitNapoleon and Alexander I sealed the Treaties of Tilsit on a raft in a river. Prussia's king waited on the bank.
- Battle of DresdenNapoleon won the Battle of Dresden in 1813, yet it changed almost nothing.
- Humboldt University of BerlinHumboldt University of Berlin founder resigned before it opened. Its first 256 students arrived in 1810 without him.
- Frederick William IIIFrederick William III, King of Prussia, was born in Potsdam on the 3rd of August 1770 into a dynasty celebrated for iron will and military genius. He had neither. A boy so reticent that he habitually omitted personal pronouns from his…
- Battle of Jena–AuerstedtNapoleon refused to believe one of his own marshals had beaten the main Prussian army.
- Battle of LeipzigA corporal who was never told the right time blew up a bridge too early. French troops were still crossing at Leipzig.
- Battle of Paris (1814)Napoleon refused to fortify Paris in 1814, fearing walls would make him look weak.