1.  Jena  is  a  town  of  central  Germany,  in  the  grand-duchy  of  Saxe  Weimar,  on  the  west  bank
of  the  river  Salle,  forty-three  miles  south-west  from  Leipsic.    The  battle  was  fought  between
the  towns  of  Jena  and  Weimar.    (Map  No.  XVII.)

2.  rfuerstudt  (ow'-€r-stadt)  is  a  small  village  of  Prussian  Saxony,  six  miles  west  of  Naumberg,
and  about  twenty  miles  north  of  the  battle-ground  of  Jena.    (Map  No.  XVII.)

3.  Eylau  (i-low)  is  a  village  in  Prussia  proper,  or  East  Prussia,  twenty-eight  miles  south
from  Konigaberg.    (Map  No.  XVII.)

4.  Dantzic  is  an  important  commercial  city,  seaport,  and  fortress,  of  the  province  of  West
Prussia,  on  the  western  bank  of  the  Vistula,  about  three  miles  from  its  mouth.    Dantzic  sur-
rendered to  the  French  May  27th  1807.    (Map  No.  XVII.)

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CHAP.  VI]  NINETEENTH   CENTURY.  487

25.  'At  length,  on  the  1 4th  of  June,  Napoleon  fought  the  great
and  decisive  battle  of  Friedland,1  and  the  broken  remains  of  the
Russian  army  fell  back  upon  the  Niemen.8     An  armistice  was  now
agreed  to  :  on  the  25th  of  June  the  emperors  of  France  and  Russia
met  for  the  first  time,  with  great  pomp  and  ceremony,  on  a  raft  in
the  middle  of  the  Niemen,  and  on  the  7th  of  July  signed  the  treaty
of  Tilsit.8     All  sacrifices  were  made  at  the  expense  of  the  Prussian
monarch,  who  received  back  only  about  one-half  of  his  dominions.
