Napoleon I7 July 1807
Gives Russia free hand in Sweden, Annexing the grand Duchy of Finland 1809
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Gives Russia free hand in Sweden, Annexing the grand Duchy of Finland 1809
The Treaties of Tilsit were two agreements signed by Napoleon I of France in the town of Tilsit in July 1807 in the aftermath of his victory at Friedland. The first was signed on 7 July, between Tsar Alexander I of Russia and Napoleon I of France, when they met on a raft in the middle of the Neman River
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