Word: tilsiter
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...Auguste Wilhelmine Amalie Luise (1776-1810) is chiefly famed because of her personal appeal to Napoleon at his camp in Tilsit after the battle of Jena (1806). She begged him to have mercy upon Prussia, but was only partially successful in obtaining certain concessions which enabled the Prussian army eventually to build up its strength...
...Indies swirled within him. But he went no farther than Egypt, returned to Paris without his army. Everyone knows the rest of the story?the coup d' etat . . . imperial crown of golden laurel leaves . . .Austerlitz and "name your children after me" ... a treaty on a raft at Tilsit . . . the comet begins to droop . . . conqueror of a burning Moscow . . . Leipsig and puny Elba . . . Waterloo and hellish St. Helena...
...peace of Tilsit, between Napoleon and Prussia, it was laid down that the Prussian Army was not to exceed 42,000 men. Prussia kept the treaty, but men like Scharnhorst, Clausewitz, Gneisenau, Stein, Grolmann, saw a way around it. They reorganized the Army on the basis of universal military service, which meant that they would never have an army of more than 42,000 men; but as the old classes were released, new classes were called up, and an effective trained reserve was formed...
...Charles Lesage has written a book entitled Napoleon, the First Creditor of Prussia. The object of the work is to point out that Napoleon never succeeded in extracting the indemnity which was accepted by the Prussians in the Treaty of Tilsit. The moral is obvious...
...Europe is in grave danger as long as the Germans are allowed to keep such a formidable army. Immediate action by the Allies will put a stop to the budding menace. Every effort must be made to keep the Treaty of Versailles from becoming a second Peace of Tilsit...