ABSTRACT
The majority of the articles of the constituting document dealt with a matter of the very greatest interest to the German Princes, the territorial question. Briefly, an enormous simplification was to be effected in the map of Germany by the mediatisation of all the petty states which had the misfortune to find their territories enclosed in the dominions of their larger neighbours. The Prussian army, in which the whole country reposed a confidence as profound as it was soon to be proved baseless, was in all essentials the army of Frederick IT. From the point of view of German history the subsequent events of the campaign of 1806-1807 are of less importance than the effects of the collapse of Jena, Auerstadt, Prenzlau and Magdeburg on the government of Prussia.
