This was the case of Prussia, a former duchy that in the early 1700s emerged from the shadow of Poland and the Holy Roman Empire. Growing to encompass much of northern and central Europe ...

During the second partition of Poland in 1793 (between the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia), Poland was forced to cede Danzig to Prussia, but only briefly. Napoleon Bonaparte acquired ...

Paderewski. A virtuoso of worldwide celebrity, the great pianist is now leading an anti-German revolt in Prussian Poland, his beloved country to whose interests he has devoted himself ever since the ...

Defeating the Prussian army at the battles of Jéna and ... To defeat Russia, Napoleon marched his soldiers deep into Poland. WOLOCH: Napoleon’s justification is that you always have to take ...

Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst was born on 2 May 1729 in Stettin, then part of Prussia (now Szczecin in Poland), the daughter of a minor German prince. In 1745, after being received ...