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The image of an invincible Prussian army, which had so impressed itself on the Poles since the reign of Frederick the Great, was destroyed in a single day, on 14 October 1806. The retreat of the demoralized Prussians after the battles of Jena and Auerstädt opened Napoleon’s way to Berlin and the east — to the Polish districts of the Prussian Kingdom that had been captured during the Partitions of Poland in 1772, 1793 and 1795. Within a month, on 4 November, the avant-garde of the Grande Armée reached Poznań and from there continued its march to Warsaw.
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Czubaty, J. (2009). Glory, Honour and Patriotism: Military Careers in the Duchy of Warsaw, 1806–1815. In: Forrest, A., Hagemann, K., Rendall, J. (eds) Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians. War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583290_4
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