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The Congress of Vienna (September 1814-June 1815)
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Where Victorious Allies against napolean got together in Austria Vienna to:
fix mess created by France restore order to European Monarchies create a lasting peace through a secured country |
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Members of Congress of Vienna
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Prince Metternich (Austrian F.A Minister)
Viscont Castlereagh(British Foreign Secretary) Talleyrand (French F.A Minister) Alexander I (Russian Tsar) Frederich Willian III (Prussian King) |
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Settling it with France:
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Victorious Powers: G.B, Russia, Prussia, and Austria
Tolerates/Restores Bourbon Monarchy to make peace with France |
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1st peace of Paris
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back to France of 1792
with Avignon, Venaissan, Parts of Savoy, German, and Flemish Territiory. (They had none of those in 1789) -Making Peace. |
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2nd Peace of Paris (ursurper)
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Back to France of 1790 (same restirictions)
France would have to pay 700 million Francs Army of Occupation of 150,000 on French Soil at thier expense Recalled in 1818 Had to give back countries of origin |
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New territitorial Arrangements:
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Dominant partnership of Austria and British crushed Russian and Prussian ambintion.
countries had to give to gain to maintain B.O.P No one would recieve enough to be a present or future threat to the B.O.P |
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Steps taken to countain France (Pre-Vienna)
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Low countries = 1 state that acted as a buffer against future french continental expansion, a block to revolution, and of French sea Power.
New KIngdom of Netherlands placed under rule of William I Forced joining of Southern Catholic provinces and northern protsetant province that were seperated by and since the peace of Westphalia of 1648 G.B gave William I 2 Million to fortify front against France Peestablihed the monarchy in the KIngdom od Sardina and Piedmont which included savoy, nice, and part of Genoa which contained France on South east Border Prussia controlled the left bank of the Rhine Austrian power firmly est. in Italy, through territorial control of influence over individual states. The Papal states, Napoleon's cisalpine republic and Kingdom of Italy were returned to Pope Pius XII Austria got the republic of Venice: Lombardy, and the Illyrian provinces on dalmation coast The habsuburg Princes got the Italian duchies of Tuscany , Parma and Modena |
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After Napoleon's fall
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No one cared to fix the H.R.E
His confederation of Rhine was dissolved Instead the land that was 300 different states became 38 states in the German confederation Along with them was Austria as the 39th and represented in the new federal dit of Frankfurt Intended as Bulwark against France not as a form of government of 39 states: 35 were monarchies and 4 were free |
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Dismembered and broken Poland
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Because Russia Prussia and Austria ripped it apart
Napoleon constituted a small part as the Duchy of Warsaw |
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Decisions regarding Poland at Congress of Vienna
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Alexander I wanted it to extend Russian territiory to Eastern and Central Europe and based claim on the fact that russian army contributed greatly to fall of Napoleon
Prussia wanted Saxony G.B and France disapproved |
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Talleyrand achievements: smart on politics and survival
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Bishop under Old Regime
Revolutionary who's not dead Exiled in America during the Great Terror Napoleon's chief minister Represented the restored bourbon monarchy at Confress convinced Congress to make France equal secretly persaded Austria and G.B to preserve a polish territory to go to war with Prussia and Russia but they backed down ("too scared to fight and too stupid to agree) |
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Final agreement of Congress of Vienna
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Prussia: polish posen, 2/5 of Saxony, territory on left of Rhine, duchy of Westphalia, and swedish pomerania
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Final agreement of Congress of Vienna
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Prussia: polish posen, 2/5 of Saxony, territory on left of Rhine, duchy of Westphalia, and swedish pomerania
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