Lost Worlds: Life Under Napoleon

The Overreacher (1x3)

Data di messa in onda: Feb 05, 2010

After the defeat of the Prussian army at Jena and Auerstadt, King Friedrich Wilhelm III fled in exile to Koenigsberg. In 1806 Napoleon entered Berlin in triumph. He only stayed in the old Prussian capital for a short while but remained well-informed about events due to the installation of the earliest form of telegraphy, a series of towers with moving signals. In Berlin, Napoleon's art expert, Dominique Vivant Denon, set about sending Prussia's best art treasures back to Paris. Denon even dismantled the Quadriga, the massive sculpture that adorns the top of the Brandenburg Gate. In 1807 Napoleon made a pact with Russia which greatly reduced Prussia's power and, confident that affairs in Prussia were under his control, he withdrew French troops.