Prologue
The Golden Eagle
27th of August of 1813, Dresden, Saxony, the night after the battle.
The Emperor of the French was sleeping in his campaign tent, he won a crushing victory that morning, defeating an Austrian Army with the double of the size. But the rain of the previous day gave him a strong colic, he went to sleep in a mix of pain and happiness of another victory. But everything changed on that night when he heard a voice in his dream.
He woke up sweating like a pig, rushed to the table and wrote a letter, addressed to Tsar Alexander I, leader of the 6th coalition, and called a meeting of the Generals.
The generals standed around the campaign table when the Emperor arrived. Napoleon used his traditional uniform and had a very serious expression. He didn't greet the Generals and instead just went to his side of the table and started to speak.
"Gentlemen, we went to many adventures together, from Austeritz to Borodino, from Egypt to Jena. But there comes a time that we have to stop." The generals murmured to eachother, was the Colic too strong ? "This last night I had a dream, I saw the future of France, if we keep going we shall become a nation humiliated by the Germans and just a shadow of our Empire. I could hear the voice of Josephine, telling me to stop before I brought the destruction of France. I have decided to hear the voice and now I have sent a letter to Alexander, offering reasonable terms of peace to him, we will lose our Empire, but we shall keep France, Piedmont, Catalonia, and the West Bank of the Rhine. We shall quit while ahead as to avoid the dark future. Here we shall celebrate the end of the Wars."
The Generals applauded the Emperor, many with visible smiles on his face, others yelling "Vive L'Emperur ! Vive La France !"
2 days later, the French menssager arrived at the coalition camp, he requested to meet the Tsar but was surprised to what he heard: The Tsar Alexander I died of a strong digestive disease. Luckily for the French the Austrian foreign Minister, Klemens von Metternich, became head of the coalition. Metternich was taken aback by the generous peace terms proposed by Napoleon just after losing battle after battle against the Corsican, he didn't hesitate to accept Napoleon's offer of negotiations and called a meeting of all Coalition leadership to Vienna.
A week later, Napoleon went to Vienna, in a peace meeting between the leaders of the Coalition. Napoleon used the victory in Dresden and his several previous victories against the coalition during 1813 as bargaining chips. The Coalition leaders were taken by surprise by the Lenient peace offer made by the Emperor, even with the British insisting on keeping the war until ultimate victory, and that having Napoleon to remain Emperor was a threat, the rest of the coalition happily agreed to the "Peace of Vienna". France was allowed to keep a large territory, keeping the Netherlands as a puppet state under French Control. The rest of the Empire would be split into spheres of influence. The coalition would recognize Napoleon and his dynasty as rightful rulers of France, in return, Napoleon would not engage with any further expansion Wars into the European continent. The British weren't happy with that and they also demanded the Retreat of the French from Iberia, Napoleon accepted but demanded to keep Catalonia, the British accepted the compromise and swore to never create and subside another coalition against Napoleon and France. The Napoleonic Wars were over.
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