
3.54- The Empire
Revolutions
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The Battles of Austria and Napoleon
Francis renounced the title holy roman emperor and became merely francis the first of austria, thus ending the nearly thousand year old holy roman empire for good. The british set up a blockade of europe to strangle the french empire economically, and napoleon responded by declaring a continent wide embargo on trade with britain. Prussians finally joined what then became known as the fourth coalition, which is really just the third coalition, with austria being replaced by prussia. But this turned out to be a pretty bad move on prussia's part. In a double battle fought at jena and aurstedt on october fourteenth 18 o six
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