Artlenburg Convention
With the Convention of Artlenburg or Elbe Convention , the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg surrendered to Napoleon's army on July 5, 1803 .
history
After the French troops under Lieutenant General Mortier , the first on 3 June 1803 by Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn to responsible end Convention Sulingen initialed who occupied on June 5, 1803 Napoleon's troops the capital of Hanover , while Mortier the Hardenberg house to his quarters specific .
At the same time, the electoral Hanoverian troops withdrew to internment on the north bank of the Elbe in the duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg after the capitulation . The ratification of the Sulingen Convention was subsequently refused by Napoleon.
On July 5, 1803 Hanover signed commander of Wallmoden-Gimborn in Artlenburg the broader Convention on the surrender of the Electorate of Hanover and the resolution of Kurhannoverschen army .
literature
- Hanover . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 8, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 136.
- Wording of the Artlenburg Convention
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Mlynek : WALL-FASHIONS GIMBORN, Johann Ludwig Graf von. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 375; online through google books
- ↑ Klaus Mlynek: MORTIER, Edouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 260 and others, online via Google books
- ↑ Note: Instead of June 3, 1803, the same Hanoverian Biographical Lexicon also mentions the date June 5, 1803; compare WALLMODEN-GIMBORN ... with MORTIER ...