Temat: Biographies, people of the epoque
...of Bavaria and carried out many reforms. In 1801 he ceded certain territories west of the Rhine to France, and joined the League of the Rhine four years later. He allied himself to the Empire and his troops served in the Austerlitz campaign. After the Peace of Pressburg he assumed the title of King, and remained loyal to Napoleon until after Leipzig, in late 1813 he signed the Treaty of Ried with the Allies. In 1817 he gave his country a constitution. Lieutenant General Sir Charles James Napier (1782-1853) First commisioned in 1794, he was promoted to major in 1805 and served under Moore at Corunna, where he was wounded and made prisoner. Exchanged the next year, he was posted to the Peninsula and fought at the Coa and Bussaco. Promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1811, two year later he served against the United States. In 1822 he was in Greece during part of its independence struggle, but he declined the command of rebels against the Turks....
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