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Königreich Sachsen
Topic Started: Jun 16 2009, 12:25 AM (382 Views)
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General Overview

Capital: Dresden
Government: Monarchy
Population:4,806,661
Anthem: Sachsen Hymne
Revenue:£500,000
Currency: Saxon Thaler
Debt: - £0
Credit Rating: 5.4%
Industrial Production Points: 3 IPP
Royal House:House of Wettin

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His Majesty King Friedrich August I, King of Saxony

History of Saxony

After the dissolution of the medieval Duchy of Saxony, the name Saxony was first applied to a small part of the duchy situated on the Elbe around the city of Wittenberg. When in 1356 the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV issued the Golden Bull, the fundamental law of the empire which settled the method of electing the emperor, the Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg was made one of the seven electorates and promoted to become the Electorate of Saxony. This lent influence out of proportion to the small area of the state. In addition, electoral status required succession based on primogeniture, which precluded the division of the territory among several heirs and the consequent disintegration of the country.

The Protestant Reformation of the 16th century began under the protection of the electors of Saxony — in 1517, Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses at the castle church of Wittenberg. The electorate remained a focal point of religious strife throughout the Reformation and to the subsequent Thirty Years' War.

Following the Thirty Years' War, Saxony's rulers and people were Lutheran and, although with ascension of Frederick Augustus II the rulers were once again Roman Catholic, the population remained Protestant.

When in 1806 Napoleon I's French Empire began a war with Prussia, Saxony at first allied itself to Prussia, but afterwards joined Napoleon and entered the Confederation of the Rhine and the electorate became the Kingdom of Saxony with Elector Frederick Augustus III becoming King Frederick Augustus I.

The new kingdom was an ally of France in all the Napoleonic wars of the years 1807-13. At the beginning of the great War of Liberation (1813) the king sided neither with Napoleon nor with his allied opponents, but united his troops with those of France when Napoleon threatened to treat Saxony as a hostile country. At the Battle of Leipzig (16-18 October, 1813), when Napoleon was completely defeated, the greater part of the Saxon troops deserted to the allied forces. The King of Saxony was taken as a Prussian prisoner to the Castle of Friedrichsfeld near Berlin.

The Congress of Vienna (1814-15) took from Saxony the greater part of its land and gave it to Prussia, namely 7,800 square miles (20,000 km2) with about 850,000 inhabitants; this ceded territory included the former Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg, the former possessions of the Dioceses of Merseburg and Naumburg, a large part of Lusatia, etc. What Prussia had obtained, with the addition of some old Prussian districts, was formed into the Province of Saxony.
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Allied Nations

Cordial Relations

Kingdom of Prussia
Kingdom of Bavaria
Kingdom of Wurttemburg
Electorate of Hesse
Grand Duchy of Baden
Grand Duchy of Hesse
Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau

Impartial Relations

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Kingdom of France
Kingdom of Spain
United Kingdom of the Netherlands
Ottoman Empire
Kingdom of Sweden-Norway
Kingdom of Portugal
Kingdom of Denmark
Principality of Moldova
Principality of Wallachia
Kingdom of Sardinia
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
States of the Church
Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Duchy of Parma
Duchy of Modena
United States of America
Kingdom of Brazil
Republic of Paraguay
Mehemite Egypt
Shahdom of Persia


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Mexican Rebels
La Plata Rebels
Bolivarian Rebels
Chilean Rebels
Serbian Rebels

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Royal Saxon Army

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Saxony Soldiers in battle

Commander:King Friedrich August I
Chief of the General Staff: Major General Karl von Heygendorff
Army Size:40,000 men

23rd Infantry Division (1st Royal Saxon)
Commanding Officer:General Johann von Thielmann
Troop Size:15,000

24th Infantry Division (2nd Royal Saxon)
Commanding Officer:Field Marshall Prince Anton Clemens
Troop Size: 15,000

Saxon Cavalry Division
Commanding Officer:General Prince Maximilian
Troop Size:9,000

12th Pioneer Battalion (Royal Saxon)
Commanding Officer:Colonel Prince Klemens Maria Joseph
Troop Size:10,000
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