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The [[Fourth Coalition]] was assembled the following year, and Napoleon defeated [[Prussia]] at the [[Battle of Jena-Auerstedt]] ([[14 October]] [[1806]]). He marched on against advancing Russian armies through [[Poland]], and was attacked at the bloody [[Battle of Eylau]] on [[6 February]] [[1807]]. After a decisive victory at [[Battle of Friedland|Friedland]], he signed a [[Treaties of Tilsit|treaty]] at [[Tilsit]] in [[East Prussia]] with Tsar [[Alexander I of Russia|Alexander I]] of Russia, dividing Europe between the two [[power (international)|powers]]. He placed puppet rulers on the thrones of [[German states]], including his brother [[Jerome Bonaparte|Jerome]] as king of the new state of [[Kingdom of Westphalia|Westphalia]]. In the French-controlled part of Poland, he established the [[Duchy of Warsaw]], with King [[Frederick Augustus I of Saxony|Frederick Augustus I]] of [[Saxony]] as ruler. Between 1809 and 1813, Napoleon also served as Regent of the [[Berg (German region)|Grand Duchy of Berg]] for his brother [[Louis Bonaparte]].

[[Ludwig van Beethoven]] initially dedicated his third symphony, the [[Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)|Eroica]] (Italian for "heroic"), to Napoleon in the belief that the general would sustain the democratic and republican ideals of the French Revolution, but in 1804, as Napoleon's imperial ambitions became clear, renamed the symphony as the "Sinfonia Eroica, composta per festeggiare il Sovvenire di un grand'Uomo", or in English, "composed to celebrate the memory of a great man".

===The Peninsular War and the War of the Fifth Coalition===