The Treaty of Tilsit
Napoleon and Alexander I of Russia signed a peace treaty on 7 July, 1807.
Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, was riding high. In a series of brilliant victories from Austerlitz to Jena and Friedland he had defeated the armies of Austria, Prussia and Russia.
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