The Treaty of Poznań (or Treaty of Posen) was signed on 11 December 1806 in

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and ended the war between the French Empire and the

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. The latter was an ally of

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as a member of the Fourth Coalition against France. It was defeated in the battles of

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and Auerstedt and partially occupied by French troops.Jakub Basista, "Saxony", in Gregory Fremont-Barnes (ed.), ''The Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History'' (ABC-CLIO, 2006), p. 880. The peace treaty was negotiated, for the French, by

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. Michael Broers
''Napoleon, Volume 2: The Spirit of the Age''
(Faber & Faber, 2019). According to its terms, the electorate became the

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and annexed certain territories (including

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) taken from Prussia.Clive Emsley, ''The Longman Companion to Napoleonic Europe'' (Routledge, 2014), pp. 44 and 263. It was required to join the

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and pay France an indemnity of 25 million

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s. It had to contribute a small contingent for the ongoing French campaign against the coalition and place 20,000 troops at French disposal in any future war. Saxony also had to cede a small amount of territory in its west to the new

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Chronology of the Napoleonic Wars 1806 to 1808

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