LME Campaigns and Factions

[Iutland]

Prelude

In the year 1805 Napoleon’s troops were stationed at the French coast ready for a planned invasion of England using a naval flotilla. But before the flotilla could cross, however, Napoleon had to gain naval control of the English Channel - in his own words, "Let us be masters of the Channel for six hours and we are masters of the world." He envisaged doing this by having the Brest and Toulon Franco-Spanish fleets break out from the British blockade (led at Brest by Collingwood and Toulon by Nelson), and then sail across the Atlantic to threaten the West Indies. This, he hoped, would draw off the Royal Navy force under William Cornwallis defending the Western Approaches. The Toulon and Brest fleets (under Pierre-Charles Villeneuve and Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume respectively) could then rendezvous at Martinique, quickly sail back across the Atlantic to Europe (losing both these pursuing British fleets en route), land a force in Ireland (as in the two French Revolutionary invasions of Ireland in 1796 and 1798) and, more importantly, defeat what parts of the Channel Fleet had remained in the Channel, take control of the Channel and defend and transport the invasion force, all before the pursuing fleets could return to stop them. (source wiki) .

Are you up to the task of both defeating Nelson and the Iron Duke before crushing your oldest enemy? Or would you rather try to stop Napoleon and his forces, the choice is yours!

1805 campaign

The La montée de l'Empire mod is a historical focused mod that give you the opportunity to play as either Naploeon or one of his allies, play as one of the Third Coalition members, or perhaps play as one of the “Major” Neutral countries having the option to choose side or stay out of the conflict in the basic 1805 campaign.

1807 Campaign

In the 1807 Campaign Napoleon and the first Empire have succeeded in the battle of Austerlitz 1805 forcing Austria out of the war and at the battle of Jena and Auerstedt 1806 getting the Prussians on the verge of collapse. The Confederation of the Rhine (Rheinbund) is formed by the German speaking nations and the Duchy of Warsaw (Poland-Lithuania) is created by Napoleon I. But the French and Spanish fleets are no longer real contestants to the Royal Navy's supremacy after the battle of Traflager.
The war of the third coalition is over and the map of European nations has changed. Will you face new troubles or exploit new opportunities.

1812 campaign

In the 1812 Campaign Napoleon is already on his way towards Moscow during his invasion of Russia. Britain, Spain and Portugal are fighting the French on Iberian Peninsula. Will you succeed where Napoleon failed and the Germans did 130 years later or will you rather stop the onslaught, the choice is yours.

1813 campaign

In the 1813 Campaign Napoleon is on the defense after the disaster following his invasion of Russia and the loss of the Peninsular war. The period is called the "War of the Sixth Coalition" and after the Battle of Leipzig (October 1813) most of Napoleons German allies defected thus only The Kingdom of Napoli, The Kingdom of Italy and Denmark-Norway remained allied. The scene is set for the 1813 to 1818 campaign called the "End Game" of the First French Empire and the campaign should be a different experience compared to the previous 1805 and 1807 campaigns. Former allies are now enemies and victory conditions or target regions are different as well.

1796 campaign

In the 1796 Campaign we take a step back in time to the French Republic with France trying to counter the first coalition. We meet a General named Napoléon Bonaparte, who will later become first consul and Emperor of France. The campaign is a bit different setup compared to the other campaigns and results will probably differ. The scene is set for the 1796 to 1802 campaign in the later part of the French Revolutionary Wars.

1792 campaign

In the 1792 Campaign we take an even bigger step back in time to the height of the French Revolution prior to the War of the First Coalition. Contrary to the 1796 it is possible to play as the French Royalists and even Poland-Lithuania, who will have a very hard time avoiding the second partition of Poland. The campaign is a bit different setup compared to the later campaigns and results will probably differ. The scene is set for the 1792 to 1799 campaign in the earlier part of the French Revolutionary Wars, where the success of the Revolution is still in doubt just before the execution of Louis XVI and the Reign of Terror.

1815 campaign

In the 1815 Campaign we start with Napoléon Bonaparte's last 100 days as Emporer of France and surrounded by enemies. The campaign is not 100% historical and tries to present Europe beginning on the brink of the Waterloo campaign ending the Napoleonic Wars and continues until 1825 representing countries trying to establish independence from the Ottomans in the Balkans.

Other campaigns

Most factions playable in the Italian campaign



All factions playable in the Egyptian campaign

[Iutland]

Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden/Bataafse Republiek/Koninkrijk Holland

The Batavian Republic (Dutch: Bataafse Republiek) was the successor of the Republic of the United Netherlands. It was proclaimed on January 19, 1795 and ended on June 5, 1806 with the accession of Louis Bonaparte to the throne of the Kingdom of Holland.
The new Republic enjoyed widespread support from the Dutch population and was the product of a genuine popular revolution. Nevertheless, it clearly was founded with the armed support of the revolutionary French Republic. The Batavian Republic became a client state of first that "sister-republic", and later of the French Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte, and its politics was deeply influenced by the French who supported no less than three coups d'état to bring the different political factions to power that France favored at different moments in her own historical development. Nevertheless, the process of creating a written Dutch constitution was mainly driven by internal political factors, not by French influence—until Napoleon forced the Dutch government to accept his brother as monarch.
The political, economic and social reforms that were brought about during the relatively short duration of the Batavian Republic have had a lasting impact. The confederal structure of the old Dutch Republic was permanently replaced by a unitary state. For the first time in Dutch history, the constitution that was adopted in 1798 had a genuinely democratic character (despite the fact that it was pushed through after a coup d'état). For a while the Republic was governed democratically, though the coup d'état of 1801 put an authoritarian regime in power, after another change in constitution. Nevertheless, the memory of this brief experiment with democracy helped smooth the transition to a more democratic government in 1848 (the constitutional revision by Thorbecke, limiting the power of the King). A type of ministerial government was introduced for the first time in Dutch history and many of the current government departments date their history back to this period.
Though the Batavian Republic was a client state, its successive governments tried their best to maintain a modicum of independence and to serve Dutch interests even where those clashed with those of their French overseers. This perceived obduracy led to the eventual demise of the Republic when the short-lived experiment with the (again authoritarian) regime of "Grand Pensionary" Schimmelpenninck produced insufficient docility in the eyes of Napoleon. The new king, Louis Napoleon - Napoleon's own brother - surprisingly did not slavishly follow French dictates either, leading to his downfall.

The Kingdom of Holland lasted only four years. Though Louis performed his role beyond all expectations, and did his best to defend the interests of his subjects, this was exactly the reason why Napoleon decided that the Netherlands could no longer be denied the blessings of being reunited with his Empire, though over the objections of Louis. Louis abdicated on July 2, 1810 in favor of his son Napoleon Louis Bonaparte, who reigned for ten days. Then the Netherlands were finally reunited with the origins of the "alluvial deposits of the French rivers," of which the country in the view of Napoleon consists.This reunion did not outlast the effects of the disastrous French invasion of Russia, and the Battle of Leipzig. The Empire melted away, and the independent Netherlands took shape again with every city that the retreating French army of occupation evacuated in the course of 1813. In the ensuing political vacuum a triumvirate of former Orangist regents, led by Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp, invited the former Hereditary Prince (the old Stadtholder had died in 1806) to assume power as "Sovereign Prince." William VI of Orange landed in Scheveningen on November 30, 1813. He duly established control in the Netherlands and was offered the crown of the combined area of the former 17 provinces of the Netherlands (modern Belgium and the Netherlands) by the Allies in the secret London Protocol (also known as the Eight Articles of London) of June 21, 1814, which he accepted exactly one month later. On March 16, 1815 the United Kingdom of the Netherlands was proclaimed.
(Source: Wiki)

The Batavian Pepublic and Kingdom of Holland shares the same unit rooster and have access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Kurassier
2e Regiment Kurassier
1e Regiment Dragonders
Gemonteerd grenadier, wacht van de President
Hussaren, wacht van de President
Huzaren
Garde du Corps
Garde Kurassier

Guard Grenadier
Carabiniers, wacht van de President
Mariniers
Grenadier, 8e Regiment van Linie
2e Regiment Infanterie van Linie
1e Regiment Lichte Infanterie
2e Regiment Voltigeure
Jager, wacht van de President
Jager 3e Lichte Regiment
Pupilles de la Garde (France)

Légion du Danube (Legia Naddunajska)

5.5" Howitzer
7-lber Horse Howitzer
Experimental Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Zeeuw(98)
Neptunus(98)
Chatham(86)
Admiraal de Ruyter(80)
Commerce van Amsterdam(80)
Admiraal Piet Hein(80)
Admiraal Tromp(74)
Johan de Witt(74)
Bato(74)
Doggersbank(74)
Kortenaer(64)
Oldenbarneveldt(64)
Minerva(38)
Maria Reijsgersbergen(38)
Schip van de lijn Wreker klasse (80)
Schip van de lijn ex-Bucentaure klasse (80)
Schip van de lijn Willem de Eerste klasse (74)
Schip van de lijn Eendracht klasse (50)
Fregat (38)
Fregat (32)
Carronade Fregat
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Handelsschip
Dutch East Indiaman

Hussaren, wacht van de President

[Iutland]

Kurfürstentum Bayern/Königreich Bayern

On 30 December 1777, the Bavarian line of the Wittelsbachs became extinct, and the succession on the Electorate of Bavaria passed to Charles Theodore, the elector palatine. After a separation of four and a half centuries, the Palatinate, to which the duchies of Jülich and Berg had been added, was thus reunited with Bavaria. In 1792 French revolutionary armies overran the Palatinate; in 1795 the French, under Moreau, invaded Bavaria itself, advanced to Munich—where they were received with joy by the long-suppressed Liberals—and laid siege to Ingolstadt. Charles Theodore, who had done nothing to prevent wars or to resist the invasion, fled to Saxony, leaving a regency, the members of which signed a convention with Moreau, by which he granted an armistice in return for a heavy contribution (7 September 1796). Between the French and the Austrians, Bavaria was now in a bad situation. Before the death of Charles Theodore (16 February 1799) the Austrians had again occupied the country, in preparation for renewing the war with France. Maximilian IV Joseph (of Zweibrücken), the new elector, succeeded to a difficult inheritance. Though his own sympathies, and those of his all-powerful minister, Maximilian von Montgelas, were, if anything, French rather than Austrian, the state of the Bavarian finances, and the fact that the Bavarian troops were scattered and disorganized, placed him helpless in the hands of Austria; on 2 December 1800 the Bavarian arms were involved in the Austrian defeat at Hohenlinden, and Moreau once more occupied Munich. By the Treaty of Lunéville (9 February 1801) Bavaria lost the Palatinate and the duchies of Zweibrücken and Jülich. In view of the scarcely disguised ambitions and intrigues of the Austrian court, Montgelas now believed that the interests of Bavaria lay in a frank alliance with the French Republic; he succeeded in overcoming the reluctance of Maximilian Joseph; and, on 24 August, a separate treaty of peace and alliance with France was signed at Paris.
The 1805 Peace of Pressburg recognized Maximilian I's claim to be King of Bavaria. The elector declared himself to be king on 1 January 1806, officially changing the Electorate of Bavaria to being the Kingdom of Bavaria. The King still served as an Elector until Bavaria left the Holy Roman Empire (1 August 1806). The duchy of Berg was ceded to Napoleon only in 1806. The new kingdom faced challenges from the outset of its creation, relying on the support of Napoleonic France and having to change its constitution in accordance with France's wishes. The kingdom faced war with Austria in 1808 and from 1810 to 1814, lost territory to Württemberg, Italy, and then Austria.
However with the defeat of Napoleon's France in 1814, Bavaria was compensated for some of its losses, and received new territories such as the Grand Duchy of Würzburg, the Archbishopric of Mainz (Ascaffenburg) parts of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, and in 1816, the Rhenish Palatinate from France.
Between 1799 and 1817 the leading minister Count Montgelas followed a strict policy of modernisation and laid the foundations of administrative structures that survived even the monarchy and are (in their core) valid until today. On 1 February 1817, Montgelas had been dismissed; and Bavaria had entered on a new era of constitutional reform.

On 26 May 1818, the constitution of the Kingdom of Bavaria was proclaimed. The parliament would have two houses, an upper house comprising the aristocracy and noblemen, including the high-class hereditary landowners, government officials and nominees of the crown. The second house, a lower house, would include representatives of small landowners, the towns and the peasants. The rights of Protestants were safeguarded in the constitution with articles supporting the equality of all religions, despite opposition by supporters of the Roman Catholic Church. The initial constitution almost proved disastrous for the monarchy, with controversies such as the army having to swear allegiance to the new constitution. The monarchy appealed to the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire for advice, the two refused to take action on Bavaria's behalf, but the debacles lessened and the state stabilized with the accession of Ludwig I to the throne following the death of Maximilian in 1825.
(Source: Wiki)

Bavaria has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
2. Dragoner-Regiment Taxis
Garde du Corps
Reitende Gendarmerie
Ulan-Regiment
1. Chevauleger-Regiment Kronprinz
7. Chevauleger-Regiment Prinz Karl
Husaren
1. Kürassier-Regiment Prinz Karl
2. Chevauleger-Regiment König

Königlich Bayrisches Grenadier-Garde Regiment
Gendarmerie
2. Infanterie-Regiment Kronprinz
4. Infanterie-Regiment Saxe-Hildburghausen
7. Infanterie-Regiment Fürst Löwenstein-Wertheim
Leichtes Infanterie-Battalion von Bernclau
Voltigeure
Tiroler Jäger-Bataillon
11. Infanterie-Regiment Kinkel
Tiroler Füsilier-Bataillon
1. Infanterie-Regiment König

7-lber Horse Howitzer
10-lber Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Gendarmerie

[Iutland]

Danmark-Norge

Denmark–Norway (Danish and Norwegian: Danmark–Norge) is the historiographical name for a former political entity consisting of the kingdoms of Denmark and Norway, including the originally Norwegian dependencies of Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Following the strife surrounding the break-up of its predecessor, the Kalmar Union, the two kingdoms entered into another personal union in 1536 which lasted until 1814. The corresponding adjective and demonym is Dano-Norwegian.
The term Kingdom of Denmark is sometimes used to include both countries in the period 1536–1814, since the political and economic power emanated from Copenhagen, Denmark. The term covers the "royal part" of the Oldenburgs as it was in 1460, excluding the "ducal part" of Schleswig and Holstein. The administration used two official languages, Danish and German, and for several centuries both a Danish and German Chancery existed.
Denmark and Norway parted when the union was dissolved in 1814. Iceland, which legally became a Danish colony in 1814, became an independent country in 1944.

The term Denmark–Norway has didactic merits and reflects the historical and legal roots of that union. It is adopted from the Oldenburg dynasty's official title. The kings always used the style "King of Denmark and Norway, the Wends and the Goths". Denmark and Norway officially had separate legal codes and currencies, as well as mostly separate governing institutions, although following the introduction of absolutism in 1660 the centralisation of government meant a concentration of institutions in Copenhagen. The term Sweden-Finland is sometimes, although with less justification, applied to the contemporary Swedish realm between 1521 and 1809. Finland was never a separate kingdom, and was completely integrated with Sweden, while Denmark was the dominant component in a political union.

Napoleonic wars
The long decades of peace came to an abrupt end during the Napoleonic Wars. Britain felt threatened by the Armed Neutrality Treaty of 1794, which originally involved Denmark and Sweden, and later Prussia and Russia. The British fleet attacked Copenhagen in 1801 (Battle of Copenhagen (1801)), destroying much of Denmark's navy. Denmark nonetheless managed to remain uninvolved in the Napoleonic Wars until 1807. The British fleet bombarded Copenhagen again that year, causing considerable destruction to the city. They then captured the entire Danish fleet so that it couldn't be used by France to invade Britain (as the French had lost their own fleet at Trafalgar in 1805), leading to the Gunboat War
In 1809 Danish forces fighting on the French side participated in defeating the anti-Bonapartist German rebellion led by Ferdinand von Schill, at the Battle of Stralsund. By 1813, Denmark could no longer bear the war costs, and the state was bankrupt. When in the same year the Sixth Coalition isolated Denmark by clearing Northern Germany of French forces, Frederick IV had to make peace. Accordingly, the unfavourable Treaty of Kiel was concluded in January 1814 with Sweden and Great Britain, and another peace was signed with Russia in February.
The Treaty of Kiel transferred Heligoland to Great Britain and Norway from the Danish to the Swedish crown, Denmark was to be satisfied with Swedish Pomerania. But the Norwegians revolted, declared their independence, and elected crown-prince Christian Frederick (the future Christian VIII) as their king. However, the Norwegian independence movement failed to attract any support from the European powers. After a brief war with Sweden, Christian had to abdicate in order to preserve Norwegian autonomy, established in a personal union with Sweden. In favour of the Kingdom of Prussia, Denmark renounced her claims to Swedish Pomerania at the Congress of Vienna (1815), and instead was satisfied with the Duchy of Lauenburg and a Prussian payment of 3.5 million talers, also, Prussia took over a Danish 600,000 talers debt to Sweden.
Interestingly, this period also counts as "the Golden Age" of Danish intellectual history. A sign of renewed intellectual vigor was the introduction of compulsory schooling in 1814. Literature, painting, sculpture, and philosophy all experienced an unusually vibrant period. The stories of Hans Christian AndersenUnited States of America. The ideas of the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) spread far beyond Denmark, influencing not only his own era, but proving instrumental in the development of new philosophical systems after him. The sculptures of Thorvaldsen (1770–1834) grace public buildings all over Denmark and other artists appreciated and copied his style. Grundtvig (1783–1872) tried to reinvigorate the Danish National Church and contributed to the hymns used by the church in Denmark.

The Gunboat War (1807–1814) was the naval conflict between Denmark–Norway and the British NavyNapoleonic Wars. The war's name is derived from the Danish tactic of employing small gunboats against the conventional Royal Navy. In Scandinavia it is seen as the latter stage of the English Wars, whose commencement is accounted as the First Battle of Copenhagen in 1801.

These boats were originally designed by a Swede, Fredrik Henrik af Chapman. The strategic advantage of gunboats lay in the fact that they could be produced rapidly and inexpensively throughout the kingdom. The tactical advantages were that they were highly manoeuvrable, especially in still and shallow waters and presented small targets. On the other hand, the boats were vulnerable, likely to sink from a single hit; could not be used in rough seas; and were less effective against large warships. More than 200 were eventually produced in two models: the shallop gunboat had a crew of 76 men, with an 18- or 24-pounder cannon in the bow and another in the stern. The smaller barge type had a total crew of 24, armed with a single 24-pounder.
While gunboat tactics were not employed until 1807, the naval conflict between Britain and Denmark commenced with the First Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 when Horatio Nelson's squadron of Admiral Parker's fleet attacked the Danish capital. Early in the Napoleonic Wars, Denmark-Norway set on a policy of armed neutrality, using its naval forces to protect trade flowing within, into, and out of Dano-Norwegian waters. In the Second Battle of Copenhagen in 1807, the British seized a large part of the Danish fleet, so the Dano-Norwegian government decided to build smaller gunboats in large numbers.

In the first three years of the Gunboat War, these boats were on several occasions able to capture cargo ships from the convoys and to defeat British naval brigs, though they were not strong enough to overcome larger frigates and ships of the line. The British had control of Danish waters during the whole of the 1807–1814 war, and when the season was suited to navigation they were regularly able to escort large merchant convoys out through the Sound and the Great Belt. On March 22, 1808, the last Danish ship of the line Prins Christian Frederik, commanded by Captain C.W. Jessen, was destroyed by two British ships of the line in the battle of Zealand Point.
On 27 February 1811, Danish gunboats, manned by nearly 1,000 men including infantry forces, attempted to recapture the island of Anholt in the Battle of Anholt, but had to withdraw to Jutland with heavy losses. The last major fight between Danish and British men of war took place on July 6, 1812, when British warships destroyed the Danish frigate Najaden at the Battle of Lyngør on the Norwegian coast.
The Treaty of Kiel ended the war on January 15, 1814. Denmark-Norway had to cede the small island of Heligoland to Britain and all of Norway to the king of Sweden.
(Source: Wiki)

Denmark-Norway (shares some Norwegian units with Sweden and only available in Oslo) has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Den Kongelige Livgarde til Hest
Bosniakeskadronen
Landsenerer
Prins Frederik Ferdinands Dragonregiment
Livregimentet Ryttere
Livregimentet Lette Dragoner
Jydske Regiment lette Dragoner
Fyenske Regiment lette Dragoner
Husarregimentet
Den Kongbergske Eskadron
Dansk-Norsk Ryttereskadron
Sjaellandske Rytterregiment
Holstenske Regiment Ryttere
Slesvigske Regiment Ryttere
Fynske Ridende Jægere
Langelandske Ridende Jægerkorps
Sjaellandske Ridende Jaegerkorps
Frederiksstads Husarregiment

Danske Livregiment til fods
Dronningens Livregiment
Prins Christian Frederiks Regiment
Den Kongelige Livgarde til Fods
Altonaiske Grenader-Jægerkompagni
Prinds Regentens Livregiment
Jydske Infanteriregiment Grenaderer
Oldenborgske Infanteriregiment Grenaderer
Dansk-Norsk Grenaderbataljon
Staffelt Brigaden
Marinekorpset
Dansk-Norsk Infanteribataljon
Holstenske Infanteriregiment
Fyenske Infanteriregiment
Slesvigske Infanteriregiment
Sjællandske Infanteregiment
Dansk-Norsk Skarpskyttebataljon
Holstenske Skarpskytterkorps
Danske Skarpskytterkorps
Frederiksvaerns Feltbataljon
Hertuginde Louise Augustas Livjægerkorps
Lollandske Jægerkorps
Slesvigske Jægerkorps II
Kongens Livjæger korps
Hafslund Jaegerkorps
Grev Herman Wedels Bogstads Livjaegerkorps
Norske Skiløberkorps
Landevaernet
Kystmilitsen

1-pundige Amusetter (1-lber Amusset)
3-pundige kanoner (3-lber Foot)
3-pundige beredne kanoner (3-lber Horse Artillery)
6-pundige kanoner (6-lber Foot)
6-pundige beredne kanoner (6-lber Horse)
12-pundige kanoner (12-lber Foot)
7-pundige Haubitsere (7-lber Howitzer)
10-pundige Haubitsere (10-lber Howitzer)
20-pundige Haubitsere (20-lber Howitzer)

Navy (number=guns):
Christian den Syvende(122)
Christian VII(106)
Prinds Christian Frederik(86)
Waldemar(86)
Den Prægtige(80)
Neptunus(80)
Norge(80)
Norske Løve(74)
Elephanten(74)
Danmark(74)
Odin(74)
Kronprindsesse Marie(74)
Kronprinds Frederik(74)
Ditmarsken(64)
Phoenix(64)
Perlen(50)
Mars(50)
Venus(38)
Frederiksværn(38)
Nymphen(38)
Lougen(26)
Defensionsfregat Hjælperen(24)
Dronning Marie klassen (80)
Prindsesse Sophia Frederica klassen (74)
Prindsesse Caroline klassen (74)
Prindsesse Lovisa Augusta klassen (64)
Havfruen klassen (38)
Fregat (38)
Fregat (32)
Fregat (24)
Carronadefregat
Brig
Letfregat
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Kanonbaad
Handelsskib
Kinafarer

Altonaiske Grenader-Jægerkompagni

[Iutland]

Reino de España

Philip V, the first Bourbon king, of French origin, signed the Decreto de Nueva Planta in 1715, a new law that revoked most of the historical rights and privileges of the different kingdoms that formed the Spanish Crown, specially Crown of Aragon, unifying them under the laws of Castile, where the Cortes had been more receptive to the royal wish. Spain became culturally and politically a follower of absolutistFerdinand VI and Charles III. Great influence was exerted over Elisabeth of Parma on Spain's foreign policy. Her principal aim was to have Spain's lost territories in Italy restored. She eventually received Franco-British support for this after the Congress of Soissons.

Under the rule of Charles III and his ministers, Leopoldo de Gregorio, Marquis of Esquilache and José Moñino, Count of Floridablanca, Spain embarked on a program of enlightened despotism that brought Spain a new prosperity in the middle of the eighteenth century. Fearing that Britain's victory over France in the Seven Years War threatened the European balance of power, Spain allied themselves to France but suffered a series of military defeats and ended up having to cede Florida to the British at the Treaty of Paris. Despite being on the losing alongside France against the British in the Seven Years' War, Spain recouped most of her territorial losses in the American Revolutionary War, and gained an improved international standing.
However, the reforming spirit of Charles III was extinguished in the reign of his son, Charles IV, seen by some as mentally handicapped. Dominated by his wife's lover, Manuel de Godoy, Charles IV embarked on policies that overturned much of Charles III's reforms. After briefly opposing Revolutionary France early in the French Revolutionary Wars, Spain was cajoled into an uneasy alliance with its northern neighbor, only to be blockaded by the British. Charles IV's vacillation, culminating in his failure to honour the alliance by neglecting to enforce the Continental System led to Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, invading Spain in 1808, thereby triggering Spain's War of Independence.
During most of the eighteenth century Spain had made substantial progress since its steady decline in the latter part of the 17th century, under an increasingly inept Habsburg dynasty. But despite the progress, it continued to lag in the political and mercantile developments then transforming other parts of Europe, most notably in the United Kingdom, France and the Low Countries. The chaos unleashed by the Napoleonic intervention would cause this gap to widen greatly.

Spain initially sided against France in the Napoleonic Wars, but the defeat of her army early in the war led to Charles IV's pragmatic decision to align with the revolutionary French. Spain was put under a British blockade, and her colonies—for the first time separated from their colonial rulers—began to trade independently with Britain. The defeat of the British invasions of the River Plate in South America emboldened an independent attitude in Spain's American colonies. A major Franco-Spanish fleet was annihilated, at the decisive Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, prompting the vacillating king of Spain to reconsider his alliance with France. Spain broke off from the Continental System temporarily, and Napoleon—aggravated with the Bourbon kings of Spain—invaded Spain in 1808 and deposed Ferdinand VII, who had just been on the throne forty-eight days after his father's abdication in March.
The Spanish people vigorously resisted Napoleon's move, and juntas were formed across Spain that pronounced themselves in favor of Ferdinand VII. Initially, the juntas declared their support for Ferdinand VII, and convened a "General and Extraordinary Cortes" for all the kingdoms of the Spanish Monarchy. The Cortes assembled in 1810 and took refuge at Cádiz. In 1812 the Cádiz Cortes created the first modern Spanish constitution, the Constitution of 1812 (informally named La Pepa).
The British, led by the Duke of Wellington, fought Napoleon's forces in the Peninsular War, with Joseph Bonaparte ruling as king at Madrid. The brutal war was one of the first guerrilla wars in modern Western history; French supply lines stretching across Spain were mauled repeatedly by Spanish guerrillas. The war in the Iberian Peninsula fluctuated repeatedly, with Wellington spending several years behind his fortresses in Portugal while launching occasional campaigns into Spain. The French were decisively defeated at the Battle of Vitoria in 1813, and the following year, Ferdinand VII was restored as King of Spain.
(Source: Wiki)

Spain has access to the following custom LME units (Spain in the peninsular campaign has access to a number of the units):

Army:
Brigada de Carabineros Reales
Coraceros
Caballería de Línea, el Algarve
Caballería del Línea del Rey
Regimiento de Dragones de Almansa
Regimiento de Dragones Rey
Lanceros
Caballería Ligera, el Villaviciosa
Voluntarios de España Cazadores

Infantería de Marina
Reales Guardias Walonas
Reales Guardias Españolas
Granaderos Regimiento de la Princesa
Granaderos Regimiento de Zamora
Granaderos Regimiento de Guadalajara
Infantería de Línea Regimiento de Irlanda
Infantería de Línea Regimiento de Mallorca
Regimiento de Infantería de Línea Suizo de Reding n.º 3
Infantería Ligera de Voluntarios de Cataluña
Tiradores
Infantería de Línea Regimiento de Ultonia
Infantería de Línea Regimiento de Africa
Infantería de Línea Regimiento de Infante
Infantería de Línea Regimiento de Hibernia
Infantería de Línea Regimiento de Nápoles
Fusileros
Tercios Espanoles de Tejas
Regimiento de Infantería de Línea Suizo de Wimpffen n.º 1
Regimiento de Infantería de Línea Suizo de Reding n.º 2
Regimiento de Infantería de Línea Suizo de Betschard n.º 4
Regimiento de Infantería de Línea Suizo de Traxler n.º 5
Regimiento de Infantería de Línea Suizo de Preux n.º 6

4-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Foot Artillery
8-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
6" Howitzer
Experimental Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Navío de Línea Santisima Trinidad (140)
Navío de Línea Santa Ana(106)
Navío de Línea Príncipe de Asturias(106)
Navío de Línea San Carlos(106)
Navío de Línea Rayo(106)
Navío de Línea Purísima Concepción(106)
Navío de Línea San Fernando(86)
Navío de Línea Neptuno(80)
Navío de Línea Argonauta(80)
Navío de Línea San Joaquín(74)
Navío de Línea San Juan Nepomuceno(74)
Navío de Línea Asia(74)
Navío de Línea Montañés(74)
Navío de Línea Algeciras(74)
Navío de Línea América(64)
Cornelia(38)
Navío de Línea de la clase Santa ana (106)
Navío de Línea de la clase San Ildefonso (74)
Navío de Línea de la clase San Juan Nepomuceno (74)
Navío de Línea de la clase América (64)
Navío de Línea de la clase Campeon (50)
Fragata (38)
Fragata (32)
Corbeta (24)
Fragata Carronade
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Buque mercante (Merchantman type)
Buque mercante (Indiaman type)

Infantería de Línea Regimiento de Irlanda

[Iutland]

République française/Empire Français

On 18 May 1804, Napoleon was given the title of emperor by the Senate; finally, on 2 December 1804, he was solemnly crowned, after receiving the Iron Crown of the Lombard kings, and was consecrated by Pope Pius VII in Notre-Dame de Paris.
After this, in four campaigns, the Emperor transformed his "Carolingian" feudal and federal empire into one modelled on the Roman Empire. The memories of imperial Rome were for a third time, after Julius CaesarCharlemagne, to modify the historical evolution of France. Though the vague plan for an invasion of Britain was never executed, the Battle of Ulm and the Battle of Austerlitz overshadowed the defeat of Trafalgar, and the camp at Boulogne put at Napoleon's disposal the best military resources he had commanded, in the form of La Grande Armée.

In the first of these campaigns, Bonaparte swept away the remnants of the old Holy Roman Empire and, out of its shattered fragments, created in southern Germany the vassal states of Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg, Hesse-Darmstadt and Saxony, which he attached to France under the name of the Confederation of the Rhine. The Treaty of Pressburg, however, signed on 26 December 1805, gave France nothing but the danger of a more centralised and less docile Germany. On the other hand, Napoleon's creation of the Kingdom of Italy, his annexation of Venetia and her ancient Adriatic Empire and the occupation of Ancona, marked a new stage in his progress towards his Roman Empire.
To create satellite states, Napoleon installed his close relatives as rulers of many European nations. The clan of the Bonapartes began to mingle with European monarchies, wedding with princesses of royal blood, and adding kingdom to kingdom. Joseph Bonaparte replaced the dispossessed Bourbons at Naples; Louis Bonaparte was installed on the throne of the kingdom of Holland formed from the Batavian Republic; Joachim Murat became grand-duke of Berg, Jérôme Bonaparte son-in-law to the King of Württemberg, and Eugène de Beauharnais to the King of Bavaria while Stéphanie de Beauharnais married the son of the Grand Duke of Baden.
Meeting with more resistance, Napoleon went further and would tolerate no neutral power. On 6 August 1806 he forced the Habsburgs, left with only the crown of Austria, to abdicate their title of Holy Roman Emperor, ending a political power which had endured for over a thousand years. Prussia alone remained outside the Confederation of the Rhine, of which Napoleon was Protector, and to further her decision he offered her British Hanover. In a second campaign he destroyed at Jena both the army and the state of Frederick William III of Prussia. The Eylau taken against the Russians at Friedland (14 June 1807) finally ruined Frederick the Great's work, and obliged Russia, the ally of Britain and Prussia, to allow the latter to be despoiled, and to join Napoleon against the maritime supremacy of the former.

The July 1807 Treaties of Tilsit ended war between Imperial Russia and the French Empire and began an alliance between the two empires which held power of much of the rest of Europe. The two empires secretly agreed to aid each other in disputes—France pledged to aid Russia against Ottoman Turkey, while Russia agreed to join the Continental System against the British Empire. Napoleon also convinced Alexander to enter into the Anglo-Russian War and to instigate the Finnish War against Sweden in order to force Sweden to join the Continental System.
More specifically, the tsar agreed to evacuate Wallachia and Moldavia, which had been occupied by Russian forces as part of the Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812. The Ionian Islands and Cattaro, which had been captured by Russian admirals Ushakov and Senyavin, were to be handed over to the French. In recompense, Napoleon guaranteed the sovereignty of the Duchy of Oldenburg and several other small states ruled by the tsar's German relatives.
The treaty with Prussia removed about half of its territory: Kottbus passed to Saxony, the left bank of the Elbe was awarded to the newly-created Kingdom of Westphalia, Belostok was given Russia, and the rest of Polish lands in the Prussian possession was set up as the quasi-independent Duchy of Warsaw. Prussia was to reduce the army to 40,000 and to pay the indemnity of 100,000,000 francs.
Observers in Prussia and Russia viewed the treaty as unequal and as a national humiliation. Talleyrandblockade, a conception intended to paralyze his rival, but which contributed to his own fall by its immoderate extension of the Empire. To the coalition of the northern powers he added the league of the Baltic and Mediterranean ports, and to the bombardment of Copenhagen by a Royal Navy fleet he responded by a second decree of blockade, dated from Milan on 17 December 1807.
The application of the Concordat and the taking of Naples led to the first of those struggles with the pope in which were formulated two antagonistic doctrines: Napoleon declaring himself Roman Emperor, and Pius VII renewing the theocratic affirmations of Pope Gregory VII. The Emperor's Roman ambition was made more visible by the occupation of the Kingdom of Naples and of the Marches, and by the entry of Miollis into Rome; while Junot invaded Portugal, Radet laid hands on the Pope himself, and Joachim MuratPeninsular War.
Napoleon thought he might succeed in the Iberian Peninsula as he had done in Italy, in Egypt and in Hesse. The Spanish began effective guerilla resistance, however; and the trap of Bayonne, together with the enthroning of Joseph Bonaparte, made Prince of Asturias the elect of popular sentiment, the representative of religion and country.
Napoleon thought he had Spain within his control, and now the Iberian Peninsula started slipping from him. The Peninsula became the grave of whole armies and saw a war against Spain, Britain, and Portugal. Dupont capitulated at Bailen into the hands of General Castaños, and Junot at Cintra, Portugal to General Wellesley; while Europe noted at this first check to the hitherto successful imperial armies. To reduce Spanish resistance Napoleon had to come to terms with the Tsar Alexander I of Russia at Erfurt; so that, abandoning his designs in the East, he could make the Grand Army return in force to Madrid.
Thus Spain used up the soldiers wanted for Napoleon's other fields of battle, and they had to be replaced by forced levies. Spanish resistance affected Austria, and indicated the potential of national resistance. The provocations of Talleyrand and Britain strengthened the idea that Austrians could emulate the Spaniards. The campaign of 1809, however, was weaker than the Spanish insurrection. After a short and decisive action in Bavaria, Napoleon opened-up the road to Vienna for a second time; and after the Battle of Essling-Aspern, the victory at Wagram, the failure of a patriotic insurrection in northern Germany and of the British expedition against Antwerp, the Treaty of Vienna (14 December 1809), with the annexation of the Illyrian provinces, extended the Empire. Napoleon profited, in fact, by the campaign which had been planned for his overthrow.
The pope was deported to Savona and his domains were incorporated in the Empire; the senate's decision on 17 February 1810 created the title of king of Rome, and made Rome the capital of Italy. The pope banished, it was now desirable as far as Napoleon was concerned, to send away those to whom Italy had been more or less promised. Eugène de Beauharnais, Napoleon's stepson, was transferred to Frankfurt, and Murat watched until the time should come to take him to Russia and install him as King of Poland. Between 1810 and 1812 Napoleon's divorce of Josephine, and his marriage with Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, followed by the birth of the king of Rome, shed a light upon his future policy. He renounced a federation in which his brothers were not sufficiently docile; he gradually withdrew power from them and concentrated his affection and ambition on the son who was the guarantee of the continuance of his dynasty. This was the apogee of the empire.

But undermining forces already impinged the faults inherent in his unwieldy achievement. Britain, protected by the English Channel and her navy, was persistently active; and rebellion both of the governing and of the governed broke out everywhere. Napoleon felt his failure in coping with the Spanish Uprising, which he underrated, while yet unable to suppress it altogether. Men like Stein, Hardenberg and Scharnhorst had secretly started preparing Prussia's retaliation.
Napoleon's formidable material power could not stand against the moral force of the pope, now a prisoner at Fontainebleau; and this he did not realise. The alliance arranged at Tilsit was seriously shaken by the Austrian marriage, the threat of a Polish restoration, and the unfriendly policy of Napoleon at Constantinople. The very persons whom he had placed in power were counteracting his plans: after four years' experience Napoleon found himself obliged to treat his Corsican dynasties like those of the ancien régime, and all his relations were betraying him. Caroline Bonaparte conspired against her brother and against her husband Murat; the hypochondriac Louis, now Dutch in his sympathies, found the supervision of the blockade taken from him, and also the defence of the Scheldt, which he had refused to ensure; Jérôme Bonaparte, idling in his harem, lost that of the North Sea shores; and Joseph, who was attempting the moral conquest of Spain, was continually insulted at Madrid. The very nature of things was against the new dynasties, as it had been against the old.
After national insurrections and family recriminations came treachery from Napoleon's ministers. Talleyrand betrayed his designs to Metternich and suffered dismissal; Joseph Fouché corresponded with Austria in 1809 and 1810, entered into an understanding with Louis, and also with Britain; while Bourrienne was convicted of speculation. By a natural consequence of the spirit of conquest Napoleon had aroused, all these parvenus, having tasted victory, dreamed of sovereign power: Bernadotte, who had helped him to the Consulate, played Napoleon false to win the crown of Sweden; Soult, like Murat, coveted the Spanish throne after that of Portugal, thus anticipating the treason of 1813 and the defection of 1814; many persons hoped for "an accident" which might resemble the tragic ends of Alexander the Great and of Julius Caesar.
The country itself, besides, though flattered by conquests, was tired of self-sacrifice. It had become satiated; "the cry of the mothers rose threateningly" against "the Ogre" and his intolerable imposition of wholesale conscription. The soldiers themselves, discontented after Austerlitz, cried out for peace after Eylau. Finally, amidst profound silence from the press and the Assemblies, a protest was raised against imperial despotism by the literary world, against the excommunicated sovereign by Catholicism, and against the author of the continental blockade by the discontented bourgeoisie, ruined by the crisis of 1811.
Even as he lost his military principles, he maintained his gift for brilliance. His Six Days Campaign, which took place at the very end of the Sixth Coalition, is regarded as his greatest display of leadership. But by then it was the end, and it was during the years before when, instead of the armies and governments of the old system, which had hitherto reigned supreme, the nations of Europe conspired against France. And while the Emperor and his holdings idled and worsened the rest of Europe agreed to avenge the events of 1792. The three campaigns of two years (1812–14) would bring total catastrophe.

Napoleon had hardly succeeded in putting down the revolt in Germany when the Czar of Russia himself headed a European insurrection against Napoleon. To put a stop to this, to ensure his own access to the Mediterranean and exclude his chief rival, Napoleon made an effort in 1812 against Russia. Despite his victorious advance, the taking of Smolensk, the victory on the Moskva, and the entry into Moscow, he was defeated by the country and the climate, and by Alexander's refusal to make terms. After this came the lamentable retreat in the harsh Russian winter, while all Europe was concentrating against him. Pushed back, as he had been in Spain, from bastion to bastion, after the action on the Berezina, Napoleon had to fall back upon the frontiers of 1809, and then—having refused the peace offered him by Austria at the Congress of Prague, from a dread of losing Italy, where each of his victories had marked a stage in the accomplishment of his dream—on those of 1805, despite Lützen and Bautzen, and on those of 1802 after his defeat at Leipzig, when Bernadotte – now Crown Prince of Sweden – turned upon him, Jean Victor Moreau also joined the Allies, and longstanding allied nations, such as Saxony and Bavaria, forsook him as well.
Following his retreat from Russia, Napoleon continued to retreat, this time from Germany. After the loss of Spain, reconquered by an allied army led by Wellington, the rising in the Netherlands preliminary to the invasion and the manifesto of Frankfurt which proclaimed it, he had to fall back upon the frontiers of 1795; and then later was driven yet farther back upon those of 1792—despite the campaign of 1814 against the invaders. Paris capitulated on 30 March 1814, and the Delenda Carthago, pronounced against Britain, was spoken of Napoleon. The Empire fell with Napoleon's abdication at Fontainebleau.
After a brief exile at Elba, Napoleon recaptured the throne temporarily in 1815, reviving the Empire in what is known as the Hundred Days. However, he was defeated by the Seventh Coalition at the Battle of Waterloo. He was captured by the British and exiled to Saint Helena, a remote island in the South Atlantic, where he would remain until his death in 1821. After the Hundred Days, the Bourbon monarchy was restored in France, with Louis XVIII taking the throne, while the rest of Napoleon's conquests were disposed of in the Congress of Vienna. (source: wiki)

France has access to the following custom LME units (Some shared with other factions):

Army:
Eclaireurs-Grenadiers de la Garde
Eclaireurs-Lanciers de la Garde Impériale
Gendarmes d'ordonnance de la Garde Impériale
Gendarmes d'elite de la Garde Impériale
Garde d'honneur de la Garde Impériale
Mamelouks de la Garde Impériale
Chevau-Legers Lanciers de Berg
22e Régiment de Chasseurs á Cheval
27e Régiment de Chasseurs á Cheval
1er Régiment de Hussards
6e Régiment de Dragons
28e Régiment de Dragons
1er Régiment de Carabiniers
1e Régiment de Cuirassiers (le Régiment de Fer)
5e Régiment de Cuirassiers (le Royal Pologne)
8e Régiment de Cuirassiers
Hussards
Régiment de hussards croates (Croatia)

Tirailleurs-Grenadiers de la Garde Impériale
Tirailleurs-Chasseurs de la Garde Impériale
Flanqueurs-Chasseurs de la Garde Impériale
Flanqueurs-Grenadiers de la Garde Impériale
Grenadiers à pied de la Garde Impériale
Chasseurs à pied de la Garde Impériale
Fusiliers-Chasseurs de la Garde Impériale
Fusiliers-Grenadiers de la Garde impériale
Vélites de Florence
Vélites de Turin
Régiment Joseph-Napoléon
Légion du Midi
57e régiment d'infanterie de ligne (Le Terrible)
84e régiment d'infanterie de ligne (Un contre Dix)
85e régiment d'infanterie de ligne
93e régiment d'infanterie de ligne
112e régiment d'infanterie de ligne (Le vainqueur de Raab)
Les Vètèrans de Grenadiers à pied Hollandais
9e régiment d'infanterie légère (L'incomparable)
10e régiment d'infanterie légère
13e régiment d'infanterie légère
24e régiment d'infanterie légère
26e régiment d'infanterie légère
La légion hanovrienne
Tirailleurs Corses
Tirailleurs du Pô
Régiment Etrangers
1er Régiment Provisoire Croate Voltigeur (Croatia)
Chasseurs d'Montagne
Chasseurs d'Illyrie
Régiment pénal
Carabiniers á pied
Régiment Suisses (Grenadiers)
Régiment Suisses (Voltigeurs)
111e régiment d'infanterie de ligne (Piedmontese)

Le régiment de chasseurs à cheval d'Anhalt
Le bataillon d'infanterie d'Anhalt
Le bataillon d’infanterie d'Schwarzbourg
Le bataillon d’infanterie d'Reuss
Le bataillon d’infanterie d'Lippe
Le bataillon d’infanterie d'Waldeck
Le régiment d’infanterie d'Wurzbourg
Légion du Danube (Legia Naddunajska)
Légion Polonaise (Legiony Polskie)
Légion du Nord (Legia Północna)
Légion de la Vistule (Legia Nadwiślańska)

4-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Foot Artillery
8-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
Artillerie à Pied
Artillerie à Cheval
Artillerie à Cheval de la Garde Imperiale, Young Guard
Artillerie à Cheval de la Garde Imperiale, Old Guard
Artillerie à Pied de la Garde Imperiale, Young Guard
Artillerie à Pied de la Garde Imperiale, Old Guard
5.5" Foot Howitzer
5.5" Horse Howitzer
6" Foot Howitzer
Experimental Howitzer


Navy (number=guns):
Orient(122)
Impérial(122)
Océan(122)
Majestueux(122)
Austerlitz(122)
Révolutionnaire(106)
Commerce de Paris(106)
Duc d'Angouleme(106)
Invincible(106)
Bucentaure(80)
Formidable(80)
Indomtable(80)
Neptune(80)
Redoutable(74)
Achille(74)
Vétéran(74)
Psyche(38)
Vaisseau de ligne de la Classe Océan (122)
Vaisseau de ligne de la Classe Bucentaure (80)
Vaisseau de ligne de la Classe Téméraire (74)
Vaisseau de ligne de la Classe Pluton (74)
Frégate (38)
Frégate (32)
Corvette (24)
Frégate carronade
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Navire de commerce (Merchantman type)
Navire de commerce (Indiaman type)

Tirailleurs du Pô

[Iutland]

Großherzogtum Hessen

The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine (German: Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein), or, between 1806 and 1816, Grand Duchy of Hesse (German: Großherzogtum Hessen)—as it was also known after 1816—was a member state of the German Confederation from 1806, when the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt was elevated to a Grand Duchy, until 1918, when all the German monarchies were overthrown. Before 1866, its northern neighbour was its former sister Landgraviate, since 1803 an Electorate, of Hessen-Kassel – for this reason, this state was sometimes colloquially known as Hesse-Darmstadt.
Due to Hesse-Darmstadt's membership of Napoleon's Confederation of the Rhine, it was forced to cede a considerable amount of territory at the 1815 Congress of Vienna. The territory of the Duchy of Westphalia, which Hesse-Darmstadt received from the 1803 German Mediatisation, was ceded to the Kingdom of Prussia. However, it received some territory on the western bank of the Rhine, including the important federal fortress at Mainz.
The Confederation of the Rhine or Rhine Confederation (German: Rheinbund; French: États confédérés du Rhin officially and Confédération du Rhin in practice) was a confederation of client states of the First French Empire. It was formed initially from 16 German states by Napoleon after he defeated Austria's Francis II and Russia's Alexander I in the Battle of Austerlitz. The Treaty of Pressburg, in effect, led to the creation of the Confederation of the Rhine. It lasted from 1806 to 1813.
The members of the confederation were German princes (Fürsten) from the Holy Roman Empire. They were later joined by 19 others, all together ruling a total of over 15 million subjects providing a significant strategic advantage to the French Empire on its eastern front.

On 12 July 1806, on signing the Treaty of the Confederation of the Rhine (German: Rheinbundakte), 16 states in present-day Germany formally left the Holy Roman Empire and joined together in a confederation (the treaty called it the états confédérés du Rhin, with a precursor in the League of the Rhine). Napoleon was its "protector." On 6 August, following an ultimatum by Napoleon, Francis II gave up his title of Emperor and declared the Holy Roman Empire dissolved. In the years that followed, 23 more German states joined the Confederation; Francis's Habsburg dynasty would rule the remainder of the empire as Austria. Only Austria, Prussia, Danish Holstein, and Swedish Pomerania stayed outside, not counting the west bank of the Rhine and Principality of Erfurt, which were annexed by the French empire.
According to the treaty, the confederation was to be run by common constitutional bodies, but the individual states (in particular the larger ones) wanted unlimited sovereignty.
Instead of a monarchical head of state, as the Holy Roman Emperor had been, its highest office was held by Karl Theodor von Dalberg, the former Arch Chancellor, who now bore the title of a Prince-Primate of the confederation. As such, he was President of the College of Kings and presided over the Diet of the Confederation, designed to be a parliament-like body though it never actually assembled. The President of the Council of the Princes was the Prince of Nassau-Usingen.
The Confederation was above all a military alliance: the members had to supply France with large numbers of military personnel. In return for their cooperation some state rulers were given higher statuses: Baden, Hesse, Cleves, and Berg were made into grand duchies, and Württemberg and BavariaKleinstaaten," or small former imperial member states.

After Prussia lost to France in 1806, many medium-sized and small states joined the Rheinbund. It was at its largest in 1808, including four kingdoms, five grand duchies, 13 duchies, seventeen principalities, and the Free Hansa towns of Hamburg, Lübeck, and Bremen.
In 1810 large parts of northwest Germany were quickly incorporated into the Napoleonic Empire in order to better monitor the trade embargo with Great Britain, the Continental System.
The Confederation of the Rhine collapsed in 1813, with the aftermath of Napoleon's failed campaign against the Russian Empire. Many of its members changed sides after the Battle of the Nations, when it became apparent Napoleon would lose the War of the Sixth Coalition. (source: wiki)


The Grand Duchy of Hesse has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Gendarmerie
Nassauische Reitende Jäger
Badischen Husaren
Badischen Dragoner
Grossherzoglich-Hessische Garde-Chevaulegers-Regiment
Grossherzoglich Würzburgische Chevauleger
Freiwilligen Reitende Jäger
Grossherzoglich Frankfurtische Geleitsreiter

Musketier vom Leibgarde Regiment
Leibgarde-Regiment
2. Infanterie-Regiment von Nassau
Infanterie-Regiment Kurprinz
Grossherzoglich Frankfurtische Grenadiere
Leib-Bataillon von Todenwarth
Nassauische Voltigeure
Grossherzoglich Würzburgische Voltigeure
Grossherzoglich Würzburgische Grenadiere
Grossherzoglich Würzburgische Musketiere
Grossherzoglich Frankfurtische Musketiere
Infanterie-Regiment Gross- und Erbprinz
Nassauische Musketiere
Nassauische Grenadiere

3-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
7-lber Howitzer
10-lber Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

2. Infanterie-Regiment von Nassau

[Iutland]

Regno d'Italia

The Kingdom of Italy (Italian: Regno d'Italia, but also Regno Italico; 17 March 1805–11 April 1814) was a state founded in Northern Italy by Napoleon, fully influenced by revolutionary France, that ended with his defeat and fall.
The Kingdom of Italy was born on March 17, 1805, when the Italian Republic, whose president was Napoleon, became Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King of Italy, and the twenty-four years old Eugène de Beauharnais as viceroy. Napoleon was crowned in Milan’s cathedral on May 26, with the Iron Crown of Lombardy. Napoleon title was "Emperor of the French and King of Italy" (Empereur des FrançaisRoi d'Italie), showing the importance of this Italian Kingdom for him.
Originally, the Kingdom consisted of the territories of the Italian Republic: former Duchy of Milan, Duchy of Mantua, Duchy of Modena, the western part of the Republic of Venice, part of the Papal States in Romagna, and the province of Novara.
After the defeat of the Third Coalition and the consequent Treaty of Pressburg, on May 1, 1806, the Kingdom was given by Austria the eastern and remaining part of the Venetian territories, including IstriaDalmatia down to KotorMassa and Carrara to Elisa Bonaparte's Principality of Lucca and Piombino. The Duchy of Guastalla was annexed on May 24.
With the Convention of Fontainebleau with Austria of October 10, 1807, Italy ceded Monfalcone to Austria and gained Gradisca, putting the new border on the Isonzo River. The conquered Republic of Ragusa was annexed in spring 1808 by general Marmont. On April 2, 1808, following the dissolution of the Papal States, the kingdom annexed the present-day Marches. At its maximum extent, the kingdom had 6,700,000 inhabitants and was composed by 2,155 communes.
The final arrangement arrived after the new defeat of Austria: Emperor Napoleon and King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria signed the Treaty of Paris on February 28, 1810, deciding an exchange of territories involving Italy too: on rewards in Germany, Bavaria ceded southern Tirol to Italy, which in its turn ceded Istria and Dalmatia to France, incorporating the Adriatic territories into the Illyrian Provinces. Small changes to the borders between Italy and France in Garfagnana and Friuli came in act on August 5, 1811. In practice, the Kingdom was a dependency of the French Empire, which exploited its resources to enrich France. The Kingdom served as a theater in Napoleon's operations against Austria during the wars of the various coalitions. Trading with United Kingdom was forbidden.
The army of the kingdom, inserted into the Grande Armée, took part in all Napoleon's campaigns.
For 17 years, the Cisalpine Republic, Italian Republic and the successor Kingdom of Italy enlisted an army of over 200,000 men and lost about 125,000.
Infantry:

• Line infantry: five regiments from the Italian Republic, with two more later raised, in 1805 and 1808.
• Light infantry: three regiments from the Italian Republic, plus another one raised in 1811.
• Royal Guard: two battalions from the Italian Republic (Granatieri and Cacciatori), plus other two (Velites) raised in 1806, plus two battalions of young guard raised in 1810, and another two raised in 1811.

Cavalry:

• Dragoons: two regiments from the Italian Republic.
• Cacciatori a Cavallo (light horse): one regiment from the Italian Republic, plus three others, raised in 1808, 1810, and 1811.
• Royal Guard: two squadrons of dragoons, five companies of Guards of Honour.

When Napoleon abdicated to both the thrones of France and Italy on April 11, 1814, Eugène de Beauharnais was lined up the Mincio River with his army against the German invasion, and he attempted to be crowned king. The Senate of the Kingdom was summoned on April 17, but the senators showed themselves undecided in that chaotic situation. When a second session of the assembly took place on April 20, the Milan insurrection foiled the Viceroy's plan. In the riots, Minister Giuseppe Prina was massacred by the crowd, and the Great Electors disbanded the Senate and called the Austrian forces to protect the city, while a Provisional Regence of Government under the presidence of Carlo Verri was appointed.
Eugène surrendered on April 23, and was exiled to Bavaria by the Austrians, who occupied Milan on April 28. On April 26, the Empire appointed Annibale Sommariva as Imperial Commissioner of Lombardy, while many taxes were abolished or reduced by the Provisional Regence. Finally, on May 25, the Supreme Imperial Commissioner Count Heinrich von Bellegarde took all the powers in Lombardy, and former monarchies in Modena, Romagna and Piedmont were gradually re-established; on May 30, the Treaty of Paris was signed, and the remains of the kingdom were annexed by the Austrian Empire, as announced by Bellegarde on June 12. (source. wiki)

The Kingdom of Italy has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Elite a Gendarmeria
Dragoni Regina
Dragoni Napoleone
Lancieri
1a Real Italiano Cacciatori a Cavallo
2° Principe Real Cacciatori a Cavallo
4° Cacciatori a Cavallo
Guardie d'Onore di Venezia

Fanteria di Marina
6° Reggimento Fanteria di Linea
Carabinieri
Carabiniere, 2° Reggimento Fanteria Leggera
Battaglione Bersaglieri Voluntari
Voltiguers
Guardia alla Cittá di Venezia
Guardia alla Cittá di Milano
Granatieri Guardia Reale
Carabinieri Guardia Reale
Marinai della Guardia Reale
Battaglione Coloniale
Legione Dalmata
Battaglione Reale d'Istria
Légion Polonaise (Legiony Polskie)

4-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Foot Artillery
8-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
Guard Foot Artillery
Guard Horse Artillery
6" Foot Howitzer
Artiglieria a piedi di Guardia Costiera

Navy (number=guns):
Harpe(74)
Rivoli(74)
Medea(64)
Vulcano(64)
San Giorgio(64)
Eolo(64)
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Small Sané class (74)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Dragoni Regina

[Iutland]

Herzogtum Oldenburg

Oldenburg (Low German: Ollnborg) is a historical state in today's Germany named for its capital, Oldenburg. Oldenburg existed from 1180 until 1918 as a county, duchy and grand duchy. It was located near the mouth of the River Weser. Its ruling family was the House of Oldenburg, which also acquired Denmark and Russia.
The first known count of Oldenburg is Elimar of Oldenburg (d. 1108). Elimar's ancestors appear as vassals, though sometimes rebellious ones, of the dukes of Saxony; but they attained the dignity of princes of the empire when the emperor Frederick I dismembered the Saxon duchy in 1180. At this time the county of Delmenhorst formed part of the dominions of the counts of Oldenburg, but afterwards it was on several occasions separated from them to form an apanage for younger branches of the family. This was the case between 1262 and 1447, between 1463 and 1547, and between 1577 and 1617.
During the early part of the 13th century the counts carried on a series of wars with independent, or semi-independent, Frisian princes to the north and west of the county, which resulted in a gradual expansion of the Oldenburgian territory. The free city of Bremen and the bishop of Münster were also frequently at war with the counts of Oldenburg.
In 1440, Christian succeeded his father Dietrich, called Fortunatus, as Count of Oldenburg. In 1448 Christian was elected king of Denmark as Christian I, partly based on his maternal descent from previous Danish kings. Although far away from the Danish borders, Oldenburg was now a Danish exclave. The control over the town was left to the king's brothers, who established a short reign of tyranny.
In 1450 Christian became king of Norway and in 1457 king of Sweden; in 1460 he inherited the Duchy of Schleswig and the County of Holstein, an event of high importance for the future history of Oldenburg. In 1454 he handed over Oldenburg to his brother Gerhard (about 1430-1499), a wild prince, who was constantly at war with the bishop of Bremen and other neighbors. In 1483 Gerhard was compelled to abdicate in favor of his sons, and he died while on pilgrimage in Spain.
Early in the 16th century Oldenburg was again enlarged at the expense of the Frisians. ProtestantismCount Anton I (1505-1573), who also suppressed the monasteries; however, he remained loyal to Charles V during the Schmalkaldic War, and was able thus to increase his territories, obtaining Delmenhorst in 1547. One of Anton's brothers, Count Christopher of Oldenburg (about 1506-1560), won some reputation as a soldier.
Anton's grandson, Anton Günther (1583-1667), who succeeded in 1603, considered himself the wisest prince who had yet ruled Oldenburg. Jever had been acquired before he became count, but in 1624 he added Kniphausen and Varel to his lands, with which in 1647 Delmenhorst was finally united. By his neutrality during the Thirty Years' War and by donating valuable horses to warlord Count of Tilly, Anton Günther secured for his dominions an immunity from the terrible devastations to which nearly all the other states of Germany were exposed. He also obtained from the emperor the right to levy tolls on vessels passing along the Weser, a lucrative grant which soon formed a material addition to his resources. In 1607 he erected a Renaissance castle.
After the death of Anton Günther, Oldenburg fell again under Danish authority. In 1773, Danish rule ended and, in 1777, the County of Oldenburg was raised to a duchy. By the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, Oldenburg acquired the Oldenburger Münsterland and the Bishopric of Lübeck. Between 1810 and 1814, Oldenburg was occupied by Napoleonic France. Its annexation into the French Empire, in 1810, was one of the causes for the diplomatic rift between former allies France and Russia, a dispute that would lead to war in 1812 and eventually to Napoleon's downfall. In 1815 it acquired the Principality of Birkenfeld and in 1829 Oldenburg became a grand duchy. (source: wiki)


Oldenburg has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Dragoner

Leib-Regiment
Füsilier vom Rheindbundkontingent
Schütze vom Rheindbundkontingent
Grenadier vom Rheindbundkontingent
129e d'Infanterie de ligne

6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
7-lber Howitzer
10-lber Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Füsilier vom Rheindbundkontingent

[Iutland]

Osmanlı İmparatorluğu

The Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkish: دَوْلَتِ عَلِيّهٔ عُثمَانِیّه Devlet-i ʿAliyye-yi ʿOsmâniyye, Modern Turkish: Yüce Osmanlı Devleti or Osmanlı İmparatorluğu) was an empire that lasted from 1299 to 1923.
At the height of its power, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the empire spanned three continents, controlling much of Southeastern Europe, Western Asia and North Africa. The Ottoman Empire contained 29 provinces and numerous vassal states, some of which were later absorbed into the empire, while others were granted various types of autonomy during the course of centuries. The empire also temporarily gained authority over distant overseas lands through declarations of allegiance to the Ottoman Sultan and Caliph, such as the declaration by the Sultan of Aceh in 1565; or through the temporary acquisitions of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, such as Lanzarote in 1585.
The empire was at the center of interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds for six centuries. With Constantinople as its capital city, and vast control of lands around the eastern Mediterranean during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent (ruled 1520 to 1566).
The Ottoman Empire came to an end, as a regime under an imperial monarchy, on November 1, 1922. It formally ended, as a de jure state, on July 24, 1923, under the Treaty of Lausanne. It was succeeded by the Republic of Turkey which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923.
The empire was also known in English as the Osmanic Empire, the Osmanian Empire or the Ottoman State. Some contemporaries referred to it colloquially as the Turkish Empire or simply Turkey (see the other names of the Ottoman State).
The Tulip Era (or Lâle Devri in Turkish), named for Sultan Ahmed III's love of the tulip flower and its use to symbolize his peaceful reign, the Empire's policy towards Europe underwent a shift. The region was peaceful between 1718 and 1730, after the Ottoman victory against Russia in the Pruth Campaign (Great Northern War) in 1711 and the subsequent Treaty of Passarowitz brought a period of pause in warfare. The Empire began to improve the fortifications of cities bordering the Balkans to act as a defence against European expansionism. Other tentative reforms were also enacted: taxes were lowered, there were attempts to improve the image of the Ottoman state,[clarification needed] and the first instances of private investment and entrepreneurship occurred.
Ottoman military reform efforts begin with Selim III (1789–1807) who made the first major attempts to modernize the army along European lines. These efforts, however, were hampered by reactionary movements, partly from the religious leadership, but primarily from the Janissary corps, who had become anarchic and ineffectual. Jealous of their privileges and firmly opposed to change, they created a Janissary revolt. Selim's efforts cost him his throne and his life, but were resolved in spectacular and bloody fashion by his successor, the dynamic Mahmud II, who massacred the Janissary corps in 1826.
The Serbian revolution (1804–1815) marked the beginning of an era of national awakening in the BalkansEastern Question. Suzerainty of Serbia as a hereditary monarchy under its own dynasty was acknowledged de jure in 1830. In 1821, the Greeks declared war on the Sultan. A rebellion that originated in Moldavia as a diversion was followed by the main revolution in the Peloponnese, which, along with the northern part of the Gulf of Corinth, became the first parts of the Ottoman empire to achieve independence (in 1829). The suzerain states -- the Principality of Serbia, Wallachia, MoldaviaMontenegro -- moved towards de jure independence during the 1860s and 1870s. (source: wiki)

The Ottomans have access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Deli Lancer
Deli Cavalry
Anatolian Sipahi Cavalry
Circassian Armoured Cavalry

Ottoman Marines
Balkan Haydut
Cairo Janissary
Albanian Infantry
Wallachian Infantry
Bulgarian Infantry
Constantinople Militia
Elite Janissary
Crimerian Tartar

4-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Foot Artillery
9-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
14-lber Foot Artillery
18-lber Foot Artillery
20-lber Foot Artillery
Howitzers

Navy (number=guns):
Selimiye(122)
Mesudiye(106)
Fethiye(106)
Bisharet Nyuma(86)
Tevfik Nyuma(86)
Sadd a Bahri(80)
Taus-i Bahri(80)
Necm-i Sevket(80)
Seyyad-i Bahri(74)
Buruc-u Zafer(74)
Ziver-i Bahri(64)
Bedr-i Zafer(50)
Civan-i Bahri(50)
Basarat Numa class (74)
Sehbaz-i Bahri class (74)
Hilal-i Zafer class (64)
Huma-i Zafer (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Deli Lancer

[Iutland]

Kaisertum Österreich

The Austrian Empire (German: Kaisertum Österreich) was a modern era successor empire founded on a remnant of the Holy Roman Empire, which was centered on what is today's Austria and which officially lasted from 1804 to 1867. It was followed by the Empire of Austria–Hungary, which was proclaimed after declaring the Emperor of Austria also King of Hungary, a diplomatic move that elevated Hungary's status within the Austrian Empire as a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867. The Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867 to 1918) was itself dissolved by the victors at the end of World War I and broken into separate new states.
The term "Austrian Empire" is also used for the Habsburg possessions before 1804, which had no official collective name, although Austria is more frequent; the term of Austria-Hungary has also been used.
The Austrian Empire was founded by the Habsburg monarch Holy Roman Emperor Francis II (who became Emperor Francis I of Austria), as a state comprising his personal lands within and outside of the Holy Roman Empire.
This was a reaction to Napoleon Bonaparte's proclamation of the First French Empire in 1804.
Austria and some parts of the Holy Roman Empire then took the field against France and its German allies during the Third Coalition which led to the crushing defeat at Austerlitz in early December 1805. By the fourth of that same month, a cease fire was in place and peace talks were being conducted nearby.
Subsequently, Francis II agreed to the humiliating Treaty of Pressburg (December 1805), which in practice meant dissolution of the long-lived Holy Roman Empire with a reorganization of the lost German territories under a Napoleonic imprint into a precursor state of what became modern Germany, those possessions nominally having been part of the Holy Roman Empire within the present boundaries of Germany, as well as other measures weakening Austria and the Habsburgs in other ways. Certain Austrian holdings in Germany were passed to French allies—the King of Bavaria, the King of WürttembergElector of Baden. Austrian claims on those German states were renounced without exception.

One consequence of that was eight months later on 6 August 1806, Francis II dissolved the Holy Roman Empire, due to the formation of the Confederation of the Rhine by France; as he did not want Napoleon to succeed him. This action was unrecognized by George III of the United Kingdom who was also the Elector of Hanover who had also lost his German territories around Hanover to Napoleon. The English claims were settled by the creation of the Kingdom of Hanover which was held by George's British heirs until Queen Victoria's ascension, after which point it split into the British and Hanoverian royal families.
Although the office of Holy Roman Emperor was elective, the House of Habsburg had held the title since 1440 (with one brief interruption) and Austria was the core of their territories.
After Austria was defeated in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, and left the German Confederation, the Austrian Empire was transformed into the Austro-Hungarian Empire by the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, which granted Hungary and the Hungarian lands equal status to the rest of Austria as a whole.

The years 1804–1815 in Austrian foreign policy were significantly determined by the Napoleonic Wars. After Prussia signed a peace treaty with France on 5 April 1795, Austria was forced to carry the main burden of war with the French Republic/Empire for almost ten years. This situation led to a distortion of the Austrian economy contributing to the Austrians perceiving the war in a highly unpopular manner. With regard to the mentioned mood, Emperor Francis II refused to join in the next war against Napoleonic France for a long time. On the other hand, Francis II did not abandon a possibility of revenge on France and therefore he entered into a secret military agreement with the Russian Empire in November 1804. This convention was to assure mutual cooperation between Austria and Russia in the case of a new war against France.
An apparent unwillingness of Austria to join the Third Coalition was overcome by British subsidies. A decisive defeat at Battle of Austerlitz put an end to Austrian membership in the Third Coalition. Although the Austrian budget suffered from wartime expenditures and its international position was significantly undermined, the humiliating Treaty of Pressburg provided plenty of time to strengthen the army and economy. Moreover, an ambitious Archduke Charles together with Johann Philipp von Stadion pursued a new war with France.
Archduke Charles of Austria served as the Head of the Council of War and Commander in Chief of the Austrian army. Endowed with the enlarged powers, he reformed the Austrian Army to preparedness for another war. Johann Philipp von Stadion, the foreign minister, personally hated Napoleon due to an experience of confiscation of his possessions in France by Napoleon. In addition, the third wife of Francis II, Marie Ludovika of Austria-Este, agreed with Stadion's efforts to begin a new war. Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, located in Paris, called for careful advance in the case of the war against France. The defeat of French army at the Battle of Bailén in Spain on 27 July 1808 triggered the war. On 9 April 1809, an Austrian force of 170,000 men attacked Bavaria.
Despite military defeats—especially high magnitude losses like those at the Battles of Marengo, Ulm, Austerlitz and Wagram—and consequently lost territory throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (the Treaties of Campo Formio in 1797, Pressburg in 1806, and Schönbrunn in 1809), Austria played a decisive part in the overthrow of Napoleon in the campaigns of 1813–14.
The latter period of Napoleonic Wars featured Metternich exerting a large degree of influence over foreign policy in the Austrian Empire, a matter nominally decided by the Emperor. Metternich initially supported an alliance with France, arranging the marriage between Napoleon and the Francis II's daughter, Marie-Louise; however, by the 1812 campaign, he had realised the inevitability of Napoleon's downfall and took Austria to war against France. Metternich's influence at the Congress of Vienna was remarkable, and he became not only the premier statesman in Europe but virtual ruler of the Empire until 1848—the Year of Revolutions—and the rise of liberalism equated to his political downfall. (source: wiki)


Austria has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Huszaren-Regiment Fürst Liechtenstein
2. Kürassier Regiment Archduke Francis Joseph de Este
3. Kürassier Regiment Albert ze Saschsen-Teschen
2. Chevauleger-Regiment Hohenzollern
5. Chevauleger-Regiment Klenau
4. Husaren-Regiment Hessen-Homburg
5. Husaren-Regiment Radetzky
Kürassier Regiment Kaiser Franz
Leichtes Dragoner-Regiment Levenehr
Jäger-Regiment zu Pferde

Deutsche Leib-Infanterie
Ungarische Leib-Infanterie
17. Infanterie-Regiment Hohenlohe
32. Infanterie-Regiment Gyulai
51. Infanterie-Regiment Splenyi
54. Infanterie-Regiment Kallenberg
Feldjägerbataillon
Infanterie-Regiment Hoch und Deutschmeister
Infanterie-Regiment Erzherzog Ferdinand Carl
Deutsche Jäger

3-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
7-lber Foot Howitzer
10-lber Foot Howitzer
7-lber Horse Howitzer
Experimental Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Rigeneratore Klasse(86)
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

5. Husaren-Regiment Radetzky

[Iutland]

Império Português

The history of Portugal from the beginning of Queen Maria I's reign in 1777, to the end of the Liberal Wars in 1834, spans a complex historic period in which several important political and military events led to the end of the absolutist regime and to the installation of a constitutional monarchy in the country.

In 1806, after Napoleon's victory over the Prussians, he once again looked to the problem of English resistance, who had broke the peace in 1803 to challenge the Continental system imposed by the French. Once again, Portuguese ports were ordered closed to British shipping, but after a tentative of neutrality, the Portuguese reluctantly succumbed to French demands and declared war on England. But time was up: Napoleon had realized that Portugal impeded his desire for reform in Europe.
On 27 October 1807, France and Spain signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau which would partition Portugal. In this pact, Northern Lusitania, a territory between the Minho and Douro rivers would be a governing principality of the sovereign of the extinct Kingdom of Etruria (then Maria Luisa, daughter of Charles IV of Spain). The Algarve and all Portuguese territory located south of the Tagus would be governed by Manuel de Godoy, who would be compensated for his role in bringing the Spanish onside with France. The rest of Portugal, the area between the Douro and the Tagus, a strategic region because of its ports, would be administered by the central government in France until general peace. As for its colonial possessions, including Brazil, they would be divided between Spain and France.
By the end of the year, a French battalion, commanded by General Jean-Andoche Junot, entered Portugal. Ironically, their arrival was preceded by the newspaper O Monitor, which was presented to the Prince-Regent by the English ambassador, informing him of Napoleon's plan to conquer Portugal
On 27 November 1807, the Prince-Regent, Queen and the entire Royal Family boarded ships concentrated on the Tagus, accompanied by many rich merchants, the administration, judges and servants, on fifteen ships and escorted by English ships. Approximately 10,000 people, including the entire governmental apparatus, joined the Royal Family as they moved to Brazil: the country had recently been elevated to Kingdom of Brazil, a de facto colonial possession of Portugal, establishing the capital of the Portuguese Empire in Rio de Janeiro.

General Jean-Andoche Junot and his troops had entered Spain on 18 October 1807 and had crossed the peninsula to reach the Portuguese border on 20 November. Junot encountered no resistance and reached Abrantes by 24 November, Santarém on 28 November, and the Portuguese capital at the end of the month, arriving a day after the Court had fled to Brazil. Before the Prince-Regent departed, he left orders with the Regency Junta to greet the French in peace. Once he arrived, Junot promoted himself as a reformer, in Portugal to liberate the oppressed, promising progress, the construction of roads and canals, efficient administration, clean finances, assistance and schools for the poor. But, Junot set about removing the vestiges of the Portuguese monarchy, declaring that the House of Braganza had ceased to reign in Portugal, suspending the Council of Regency, the Portuguese militia suppressed, officers billeted in the richest houses and the treasury plundered for the continuing French reparations. Meanwhile 50,000 Spanish and French troops roamed the countryside arresting, killing, plundering and raping.
By 1808, as Junot was busy redesigning Portuguese society, Napoleon decided to revise his alliance with Spain, forced the abdication of Charles IV of Spain, and his son, and installed his brother, Joseph Bonaparte as King. A popular uprising in Spain immediately spread to Junot's forces, which were accompanied by Spanish troops. It further instigated a popular uprising by the Portuguese that was brutally put-down, after minor successes.

The following year, a English force commanded by Arthur Wellesley (future Duke of Wellington) disembarked in Galiza with the intent of supporting the Spanish, but later advanced on Oporto and disembarked at Figueira da Foz on 1 August. Quickly the English advanced on the French, defeating them at the Battle of Roliça (17 August) and later the Battle of Vimeiro (21 August). A two-day armistice was held as negotiations proceeded, and the belligerents formally signed the Convention of Sintra (30 August), without Portuguese representation. As part of the accord, the English transported the French troops to France, with the product of sacks made in Portugal. The Convention benefited both sides, as Junot's armies, which were incapable of communicating with France and the Anglo-Portuguese forces gained the control over Lisbon. The Portguese populous were left to avenging itself for their brutality and depredations on francophile compatriots.
As Napoleon began dealing with Spanish in earnst, he sent Marshall Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult to reoccupy Portugal. As word spread of the abdication of the Spanish Royal family, many of Spaniards revolted, gaining support from the English stationed in Portugal. Under the command of John Moore, English forces crossed the northern Portuguese border but were defeated at A Coruña by Marshal Soult, and were forced to retreat in the middle of January. The French immediately occupied northern Portugal and advanced on Oporto by 24 March.
Unlike the first invasion, there was a popular revolt against French occupation by farmers, merchants and the poor, that almost border on zeal. Many of the citizen soldiers and farmers fought against the French aggression, going so far as to see tactical retreats as a betrayal or treason by the Portuguese officers.
But, Soult occupied Chaves on 12 March, a defense of Braga was unsuccessful and the French cavalry forced entry into Oporto by 29 March. Soult forces encountered a popular resistance in Oporto, that included militia and local residents whom barricaded the streets. But, Pinto de Fonseca recovered Chaves and ultimately, it was Wellesley, again, who expelled the French from the north of the country. He was aided by William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford and supported by a stronger Portuguese contingent, trained, equipped and command by British officers. The Anglo-Portuguese forces defeated Soult at the Battle of the Douro, re-conquering the city of Oporto on 29 May, and forcing the French retreat to Galicia. Wellsely intended to pursue the French, but with French forces crossing from the Spanish Extremadura, he moved his base to Abrantes. From here his forces then marched up the Tagus valley, entered Spain and won the victory at Talavera, after which he was made Duke of Wellington. He could not penetrate further, owing to Soult's forces joining Victor, to bar the way to Madrid, and so withdrew to Torres Vedras to plan for the defense against a third invasion by the French.

The third invasion, the last effort of the Peninsular War on Portuguese soil, was commanded by Marshall André Massena, and divided into three parts under Jean Reynier, Claude-Victor Perrin and Jean-Andoche Junot, and comprised 62,000 men and 84 canon. Entering by way of Beira in August, they quickly defeated the defenders in the Fort of Almeida in August, then marched in the direction of Lisbon. Against the wishes of his council, Messena attacked the Anglo-Portuguese forces on 26 September in Buçaco, losing 4500 troops. Yet, Wellsely's forces withdrew in front of the oncoming French, until his troops entered the prepared positions in Torres Vedras.
But, the French were impeded along the Lines of Torres Vedras, a system of 152 fortifications north of Lisbon, planned by Wellington, supervised by Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Fletcher constructed by Portuguese laborers, manned by 40,000 Portuguese troops and members of the local population.Marshal Massena and his forces reached the lines by 14 October, but were unable to penetrate the defenses, and he was forced to retreat in April 1811. Supplies were running low, and Messena sent a request to Bonaparte for new instructions, but was compelled to withdraw before the instructions arrived, and he retreated to Santarém. Although Napoleon finally sent Soult, it was too late for Messena, who could not hold Santarém and withdrew towards Coimbra by March 6. Successively, the French were defeated in several smaller battles: the Battle of Sabugal, Fuentes de Onoro, Battle of Condeixa, Battle of Casal Novo, and the Battle of Foz d'Arunce, in addition to Michel Ney's rear-guard action at the Battle of Pombal. With winter quickly approaching, his forces starving, they were again defeated at the Battle of Redinha and with Anglo-Portuguese forces in pursuit, Massena crossed the border into Spain; the War would continue until March 1814, but not on Portuguese territory.
A series of battles in Spain followed, until a final victory was reached in Toulouse on April 10, 1814, putting a end to the Peninsular War. But, throughout coastal, interior and border towns there were bodies bayoneted and lying on the ground; several frontier towns were pillaged and ransacked for treasure or vandalized by retreating troops (English and French); reprisal killings were common in the local populations for sympathizers (the total war dead reached 100,000 by one account); while famine and social deprivation was common.
Meanwhile, in the Kingdom of Brazil, Portugal was successful in capturing French Guiana and Uruguay. Further, the instability in Spain and the abdication of the king, resulted in declarations of independence in the Spanish colonies of America, creating a tense climate in Brazil. (source: wiki)

Portugal has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Corpo de Guias Montado
Alcantara Regimento de Cavalaria
Elvas regimento de cavalaria
Legião d'Alorna
Regimento de cavalaria n.º 4
Regimento de cavalaria n.º 5
Regimento de cavalaria n.º 10
Almeida regimento de cavalaria

Oporto Regimento de Infanteria
Leal Legião Lusitana (LLL)
Cazadores 3 infantaria leve
Batalhão de Cazadores n.º 6
Legião de tropas ligeiras
Leal Legião Lusitana (LLL) fuzileiro
Valenca regimento de infantaria
Guarda Real da Policia


3-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Foot Artillery
9-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
5" Foot Howitzer
5,5" Foot Howitzer
Experimental Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Príncipe Real(86)
Vasco da Gama(80)
Dom João VI(74)
Medusa(74)
Maria I(74)
Rainha de Portugal(74)
Príncipe do Brasil(74)
Conde Dom Henrique(74)
São Sebastião(64)
Alfonso de Albuquerque(64)
Princesa da Beira e Portuguesa(64)
Dom Joao de Castro(64)
Martim de Freitas(64)
Princesa do Brasil a Torta(38)
Navio de linha Temivel Portuguesa classe (50)
Fragata (38)
Fragata (32)
Fragata Carronade
Brigue
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Navio mercante (Merchantman type)
Navio mercante (Indiaman type)

Legião de tropas ligeiras

[Iutland]

Königreich Preußen

The Kingdom of Prussia (German: Königreich Preußen) was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire. It took its name from the territory of Prussia, although its power base was Brandenburg.
The Treaty of Basel (1795) ended the War of the First Coalition against France. In it, the First French Republic and Prussia had stipulated that the latter would ensure the Holy Roman Empire's neutrality in all the latter's territories north of the demarcation line of the river Main, including the British continental dominions of the Electorate of Hanover and the Duchies of Bremen-Verden. To this end, Hanover (including Bremen-Verden) also had to provide troops for the so-called demarcation army maintaining this state of armed neutrality.

In the course of the War of the Second Coalition against France (1799–1802) Napoléon Bonaparte urged Prussia to occupy the continental British dominions. In 1801 24,000 Prussian soldiers invaded, surprising Hanover, which surrendered without a fight. In April 1801 the Prussian troops arrived in Bremen-Verden's capital Stade and stayed there until October of the same year. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland first ignored Prussia's hostility, but when it joined the pro-French coalition of armed 'neutral' powers such as Denmark-Norway and Russia, Britain started to capture Prussian sea vessels. After the Battle of Copenhagen (1801) the coalition fell apart and Prussia withdrew again its troops.

At Napoléon's instigation, Prussia recaptured British Hanover and Bremen-Verden in early 1806. On August 6, the same year the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved as a result of Napoléon's victories over Austria. The title of Kurfürst (Prince-elector) of Brandenburg became meaningless, and was dropped.[5] Before this time, the Hohenzollern sovereign had held many titles and crowns, from Supreme Governor of the Protestant Churches (summus episcopus) to King, Elector, Grand Duke, Duke for the various regions and realms under his rule. After 1806, Frederick William III was simply King of Prussia and summus episcopus.

But when Prussia, after it turned against the French Empire, was defeated in the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt (November 11, 1806), King Frederick William III was forced to temporarily flee to remote Memel. After the Treaties of Tilsit in 1807, Prussia lost about half of its territory, including the land gained from the Second and Third Partitions of Poland (which now fell to the Duchy of Warsaw) and all land west of the Elbe River. France recaptured Prussian-occupied Hanover, including Bremen-Verden. The remainder of the kingdom was occupied by French troops (at Prussia’s expense) and the king was obliged to make an alliance with France and join the Continental System.

After the defeat of Napoleon in Russia, Prussia quit the alliance and took part in the Sixth Coalition during the "Wars of Liberation" (Befreiungskriege) against the French occupation. Prussian troops under Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher contributed crucially in the Battle of Waterloo of 1815 to the final victory over Napoleon.
Prussia’s reward for its part in France's defeat came at the Congress of Vienna, where Prussia was granted most of its lost territories and considerably more, including 40% of the Kingdom of Saxony and much of the Rhineland. Much of the territory annexed in the Third Partition of Poland was granted to Congress Poland under Russian rule.

With these Prussian gains in territory, the kingdom was reorganised into ten provinces. Most of the kingdom, aside from the Provinces of East Prussia, West Prussia, and Posen, became part of the new German Confederation, a confederacy of 39 sovereign states replacing the defunct Holy Roman Empire.

Frederick William III submitted Prussia to a number of administrative reforms, among others reorganising the government by way of ministries, which remained formative for the following hundred years.

As to religion, reformed Calvinist Frederick William III—as Supreme Governor of the Protestant Churches—asserted his long-cherished project (started in 1798) to unite the Lutheran and the Reformed Church in 1817, (see Prussian Union). The Calvinist minority, strongly supported by its co-religionist Frederick William III, and the partially reluctant Lutheran majority formed the united Protestant Evangelical Church in Prussia. However, ensuing quarrels causing a permanent schism among the Lutherans into united and Old Lutherans by 1830.

As a consequence of the Revolutions of 1848, the Principalities of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Hohenzollern-Hechingen (ruled by a Catholic cadet branch of the House of Hohenzollern) were annexed by Prussia in 1850, later united as Province of Hohenzollern. (source: wiki)

Prussia has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Brandenburgisches Kürassier-Regiment
Towarczys-Regiment Karabinier
Dragoner Regiment König von Bayern
Garde du Corps
Garde-Volontär-Jäger-Eskadron
Freiwillige Jäger-Eskadron
Pommersches National-Kavallerie-Regiment
1. Leib-Husaren-Regiment
Lützow'sches Freikorps Husaren
10. Husaren-Regiment von Usedom
1. Schlesisches Husaren-Regiment
2. Schlesisches Husaren-Regiment
2. Brandenburgisches Husaren-Regiment (von Schill)
Lützow'sches Freikorps Ulanen
Marwitz'sches Freikorps Ulanen
Landwehr Ulanen
Garde-Ulanen-Eskadron
Garde-Kosaken-Eskadron
5. Dragoner-Regiment Königin
Litauisches Dragoner-Regiment
5. Küirassiere-Regiment Bailliodz
Leib-Karabinier-Regiment
Ostpreussisches National-Kavallerie-Regiment

Garde-Füsilier-Bataillon
Colbergsches Infanterie-Regiment
Garde-Jäger-Bataillon
Lützow'sches Freikorps Tiroler Jäger
Lützow'sches Freikorps Jäger
Freiwillige-Jäger
Colbergsches Infanterie-Regiment Jäger
1. Schlesisches Infanterie-Regiment
Lützow'sches Freikorps Musketiere
2. Ostpreussisches Infanterie-Regiment
12. Brandenburgisches Infanterie-Regiment
1. Westpreussisches Infanterie-Regiment
2. Schlesisches Infanterie-Regiment
Braunes Grenadier-Bataillon von Losthin
23. Infanterie-Regiment v. Winning
Colbergsches Infanterie-Regiment Grenadiere
Leib-Grenadier-Bataillon

3-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
Garde-Fussartillerie
Reitende Garde-Artillerie
7-lber Foot Howitzer
10-lber Foot Howitzer
7-lber Horse Howitzer
Experimental Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Reitende Garde-Artillerie

[Iutland]

Rossiyskaya Imperiya

The Russian Empire (Rossiyskaya Imperiya) was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union. It was one of the largest empires in world history, surpassed in landmass only by the British and Mongolian empires: at one point in 1866, it stretched from eastern Europe across Asia and into North America.

At the beginning of the 19th century, Russia was the largest country in the world, extending from the Arctic Ocean to the north to the Black Sea on the south, from the Baltic Sea on the west to the Pacific Ocean on the east. With 176.4 million subjects, it had the third largest population of the world at the time, after Qing China and the British Empire. It represented a great disparity in economic, ethnic, and religious positions. Its government, ruled by the Emperor, was one of the last absolute monarchies left in Europe. Prior to the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 Russia was one of the five major Great Powers of Europe.

Catherine II died in 1796, and her son Emperor Paul I (r. 1796-1801) succeeded her. Painfully aware that Catherine had considered bypassing him to name his son, Alexander, as tsar, Paul instituted primogeniture in the male line as the basis for succession. It was one of the lasting reforms of Paul's brief reign. He also chartered a Russian-American Company, which eventually led to Russia's acquisition of Alaska. Paul limited landowner's right to serf labour to three days in a week, alleviating the condition of the serfs.

As a major European power, Russia could not escape the wars involving revolutionary and Napoleonic France. Paul became an adamant opponent of France, and Russia joined Britain and Austria in a war against France. In 1798-1799 Russian troops under one of the country's most famous generals, Aleksandr Suvorov, performed brilliantly, driving the French from Italy. On December 18, 1800, Paul unilaterally declared the neighboring kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti annexed to the Russian Empire. Paul's support for the ideals of the Knights Hospitaller (and his acceptance of the position of Grand Master) alienated many members of his court. He made peace with France in 1800 and established Second League of Armed Neutrality. This alienated powerful anti-French faction, and in March 1801, Paul was deposed and assassinated.

The new Tsar, Alexander I of Russia (r. 1801-1825), came to the throne as the result of his father's murder, in which he was rumored to be implicated. Groomed for the throne by Catherine II and raised in the spirit of enlightenment, Alexander also had an inclination toward romanticism and religious mysticism, particularly in the latter period of his reign. Alexander reorganized the central government, replacing the colleges that Peter the Great had set up with ministries, but without a coordinating prime minister.

Alexander's was, perhaps, most brilliant diplomat of his time, and his primary focus was not on domestic policy but on foreign affairs, and particularly on Napoleon. Fearing Napoleon's expansionist ambitions and the growth of French power, Alexander joined Britain and Austria against Napoleon. Napoleon defeated the Russians and Austrians at Austerlitz in 1805 and defeated the Russians at Friedland in 1807. Alexander was forced to sue for peace, and by the Treaty of Tilsit, signed in 1807, he became Napoleon's ally. Russia lost little territory under the treaty, and Alexander made use of his alliance with Napoleon for further expansion. By the Finnish War he wrested the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden in 1809, and acquired Bessarabia from Turkey as a result of the Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812.

The Russo-French alliance gradually became strained. Napoleon was concerned about Russia's intentions in the strategically vital Bosporus and Dardanelles straits. At the same time, Alexander viewed the Duchy of Warsaw, the French-controlled reconstituted Polish state, with suspicion. The requirement of joining France's Continental Blockade against Britain was a serious disruption of Russian commerce, and in 1810 Alexander repudiated the obligation. In June 1812, Napoleon invaded Russia with 600,000 troops — a force twice as large as the Russian regular army. Napoleon hoped to inflict a major defeat on the Russians and force Alexander to sue for peace. As Napoleon pushed the Russian forces back, however, he became seriously overextended. Obstinate Russian resistance, members of which declared the Patriotic War, brought Napoleon a disastrous defeat: Less than 30,000 of his troops returned to their homeland.

As the French retreated, the Russians pursued them into Central and Western Europe and to the gates of Paris. After the allies defeated Napoleon, Alexander became known as the savior of Europe, and he played a prominent role in the redrawing of the map of Europe at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. In the same year, Alexander initiated the creation of the Holy Alliance, a loose agreement pledging the rulers of the nations involved—including most of Europe—to act according to Christian principles. More pragmatically, in 1814 Russia, Britain, Austria, and Prussia had formed the Quadruple Alliance. The allies created an international system to maintain the territorial status quo and prevent the resurgence of an expansionist France. The Quadruple Alliance, confirmed by a number of international conferences, ensured Russia's influence in Europe. (source: wiki)

Russia has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Leib-gvardii Dragunskii Polk
Leib-gvardii Ulanskii Polk
Grodnenskii Gusarskii Polk
Lubenskii Gusarskii Polk
Leib-gvardii Konno-Yegerskii Polk
Volynskii Ulanskii Polk
Litovskii Ulanskii Polk
Leib-gvardii Chernomorskaya sotnya
Tatarskii Ulanskii Polk
Konnyi Tatarskii
Liflyandskii Dragunskii Polk
Finlyandskii Dragunskii Polk
Sankt-Peterburgskii Dragunskii Polk
Voennago Ordenskii Kirasirskii
Leib EYA VELICHESTVA Kirasirskii
Leib EGO VELICHESTVA Kirasirskii

Leib-gvardii Yegerskii
Grenadierskii Sankt-Peterburgskii
Leib-gvardii Izmailovskii
Leib-gvardii Preobrazhenskii
Leib-gvardii Litovskii
Leib-gvardii Finlyandskii
Leib Grenaderskii Polk
Morskaya pehota
Strelki
Pervyi Yegerskii Polk
Pyatyi Yegerskii Polk
28-i Yegerskii Polk
Sevastopolskii Mushketerskii Polk
Smolenskii Mushketerskii Polk
Pernovskii Mushketerskii Polk
Poltavskii Mushketerskii Polk
Vyborgskii Mushketerskii Polk
Kievskii Grenaderskii Polk
Kavkazskii Grenaderskii Polk

6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
Guard Foot Artillery
Guard Horse Artillery
10-lber Foot Unicorn
20-lber Foot Unicorn
10-lber Horse Unicorn
Experimental Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Blagodat(122)
Khrabryi(122)
Gavriil(106)
Rostislav(106)
Yagudiil(106)
Smelyi(86)
Tverdyy(86)
Uriil(80)
Tviordyi(74)
Svyataya Paraskeva(74)
Maxim Ispovednik(74)
Retvizan(64)
Poltava class (106)
Chesma class (98)
Svyatoy Pavel class (80)
Yaroslav class (74)
Selafail class (74)
Anapa class (74)
Azia class (64)
Spehsnyi class (50)
Amfitrida class (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate carronade
Brig
Sloop
Gunboat
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Grenadierskii Sankt-Peterburgskii

[Iutland]

Konungariket Sverige

Both Sweden and Denmark-Norway tried to remain neutral during the Napoleonic wars, and succeeded for a long time, in spite of many invitations to join the belligerent alliances. Both countries joined Russia and Prussia in a League of Armed Neutrality in 1800. Denmark-Norway was forced to withdraw from the League after the British raid on the navy during the first Battle of Copenhagen in April, 1801, but still stuck to a policy of neutrality. The League collapsed anyway after the assassination of tsar Paul I of Russia in 1801.
Denmark-Norway was finally compelled into an alliance with France after the British preemptive second attack on the Danish navy, the Battle of Copenhagen (1807). The defenseless capital had to surrender the navy after heavy bombardment, because the army was at the southern border to defend it against a possible French attack. As Sweden in the meantime had sided with the British, Denmark-Norway was forced by Napoleon to declare war on Sweden on 29 February 1808.
Because the British naval blockade severed communications between Denmark and Norway, a provisional Norwegian government was set up in Christiania, led by army general, prince Christian August of Augustenborg. This first national government after several centuries of Danish rule demonstrated that home rule was possible in Norway, and was later seen as a test of the viability of independence. His greatest challenge was to secure the food supply during the blockade. When Sweden invaded Norway in the spring of 1808, Christian August successfully commanded the army of Southern Norway and compelled the numerically superior Swedish forces to withdraw behind the border after the battles of Toverud and Prestebakke. His success both as a military commander and as leader of the provisional government made him very popular in Norway. Moreover, his Swedish adversaries noticed his merits and his popularity, and in 1809 chose him as successor to the Swedish throne after the overthrow of the incompetent king Gustav IV Adolf.

One contributory factor behind the poor performance of the Swedish invasion force in Norway was that Russia at the same time invaded Finland on 21 February 1808. The two-front war proved disastrous for Sweden, and all of Finland was ceded to Russia at the Peace of Fredrikshamn on 17 September 1809. In the meantime, discontent with the conduct of the war led to the deposition of king Gustav IV on 13 May 1809. Prince Christian August, the enemy commander who had been promoted to viceroy of Norway in 1809, was chosen because the Swedish insurgents saw that his great popularity among the Norwegians might open the way for a union with Norway, to compensate for the loss of Finland. He was also held in high esteem because he had refrained from pursuing the retreating army of Sweden while that country was hard pressed by Russia in the Finnish War. Christian August was elected Crown Prince of Sweden on 29 December 1809 and left Norway on 7 January 1810. After his sudden death in May 1810, Sweden chose as his successor another enemy general, the French marshal Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, who was also seen as a gallant adversary and had proved his ability as an army commander.

The chief objective of Bernadotte's foreign policy as Crown Prince Charles John of Sweden was the acquisition of Norway, and he pursued that goal by definitely renouncing Sweden's claims in Finland and joining the enemies of Napoleon. In 1812 he signed the secret Treaty of Saint Petersburg with Russia against France and Denmark-Norway. His foreign policy provoked some criticism among Swedish politicians, who found it immoral to indemnify Sweden at the expense of a weaker friendly neighbour. Moreover, the United Kingdom and Russia insisted that Charles John's first duty was to the anti-Napoleonic coalition. Britain vigorously objected to the expenditure of her subsidies on the nefarious Norwegian adventure before the common enemy had been crushed. Only on his very ungracious compliance did the United Kingdom also promise to countenance the union of Norway and Sweden by the Treaty of Stockholm of 3 March 1813. Some weeks later, Russia gave her guarantee to the same effect, and in April Prussia also promised Norway as his prize for joining the battle against Napoleon. In the meantime, Sweden obliged its allies by joining the Sixth Coalition and declaring war against France and Denmark-Norway on 24 March 1813.
During his campaigns on the Continent, Charles John successfully led the Northern Army at the Battle of Leipzig (1813), and then marched against Denmark to force the Danish king to surrender Norway.

On 7 January, about to be overrun by Swedish, Russian, and German troops under the command of the elected crown prince of Sweden, king Frederick VI of Denmark agreed to cede Norway to the king of Sweden in order to avoid an occupation of Jutland.
These terms were formalized and signed on 14 January at the Treaty of Kiel, in which Denmark negotiated to maintain sovereignty over the Norwegian possessions of the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland. Article IV of the treaty specifically stated that Norway was ceded to "the king of Sweden", and not to the kingdom of Sweden – a provision favourable to his former Norwegian subjects as well as to their future king, whose position as a former revolutionary turned heir to the Swedish throne was far from secure. Secret correspondence from the British government in the preceding days had put pressure on the negotiating parties to reach an agreement in order to avoid a full-scale invasion of Denmark. Bernadotte sent a letter to the governments of Prussia, Austria, and the United Kingdom, thanking them for their support, acknowledging the role of Russia in negotiating the peace, and envisaging greater stability in the Nordic region. On 18 January, the Danish king issued a letter to the Norwegian people, releasing them from their fealty to him.

Already in Norway, the viceroy of Norway, Hereditary Prince Christian Frederik resolved to preserve the integrity of the country, and if possible the union with Denmark, by taking the lead in a Norwegian insurrection. The king was informed of these plans in a secret letter of December 1813 and probably went along with them. But on the face of it, he adhered to the conditions of the Kiel Treaty by ordering Christian Frederik to surrender the border fortresses and return to Denmark. But Christian Frederik kept the contents of the letter to himself, ordering his troops to hold the fortresses. He decided to claim the throne of Norway as rightful heir, and to set up an independent government with himself at the head. On 30 January, he consulted several prominent Norwegian advisors, arguing that king Frederick had no legal right to relinquish his inheritance, asserting that he was the rightful king of Norway, and that Norway had a right to self-determination. His impromptu council agreed with him, setting the stage for an independence movement.
On 2 February the Norwegian public received the news that their country had been ceded to the king of Sweden. It caused a general indignation among most people, who disliked the idea of being subjected to Swedish rule, and enthusiastically endorsed the idea of national independence. The Swedish crown prince Bernadotte responded by threatening to send an army to occupy Norway, and to uphold the grain embargo, unless the country voluntarily complied with the provisions of the Kiel Treaty. In that case, he would call a constitutional convention. But for the time being, he was occupied with the concluding battles on the Continent, giving the Norwegians time to develop their plans.

On 26 June 1814, emissaries from Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Great Britain arrived in Vänersborg in Sweden to persuade Christian Frederik to comply with the provisions of the treaty of Kiel. There they conferred with von Essen, who told them that 65,000 Swedish troops were ready to invade Norway. On 30 June the emissaries arrived in Christiania, where they rudely turned down Christian Frederik's hospitality. Meeting with the Norwegian council of state the following day, the Russian emissary Orlov put the choice to those present: Norway could subject itself to the Swedish crown or face war with the rest of Europe. When Christian Frederik argued that the Norwegian people had a right to determine its own destiny, the Austrian emissary August Ernst Steigentesch made the famous comment: "The people? What do they have to say against the will of their rulers? That would be to put the world on its head."
In the course of the negotiations Christian Frederik offered to relinquish the throne and return to Denmark, provided the Norwegians have a say in their future through an extraordinary session of the Storting. But he refused to surrender the Norwegian border forts to Swedish troops. The four-power delegation rejected Christian Frederik's proposal that Norway's constitution form the basis for negotiations about a union with Sweden, but promised to put the proposal to the Swedish king for consideration.
On 20 July, Bernadotte sent a letter to his "cousin" Christian Frederik, accusing him of intrigues and foolhardy adventurism. Two days later he met with the delegation that had been in Norway. They encouraged him to consider Christian Frederik's proposed terms for a union with Sweden, but the crown prince was outraged. He reiterated his ultimatum that Christian Frederik either relinquish all rights to the throne and abandon the border posts, or face war. On 27 July, a Swedish fleet took over the islands of Hvaler, effectively putting Sweden at war with Norway. The day after, Christian Frederik rejected the Swedish ultimatum, saying that surrender would constitute treason against the people. On 29 July, Swedish forces invaded Norway.

Swedish forces met with little resistance as they advanced northward into Norway, bypassing the fortress of Fredriksten. The first hostilities were short and ended with decisive victories for Sweden. By 4 August, the fortified city of Fredrikstad surrendered. Christian Frederik ordered a retreat to the river Glomma. The Swedish Army, trying to intercept the retreat, was stopped at the battle of Langnes, an important tactical victory by the Norwegians. The Swedish assaults from the east were effectively resisted near Kongsvinger.
On 3 August Christian Frederik announced his political will in a cabinet meeting in Moss. On 7 August a delegation from Bernadotte arrived at the Norwegian military headquarters in Spydeberg with a cease-fire offer based on the promise of a union with respect for the Norwegian constitution. The day after, Christian Frederik expressed himself in favour of the terms, allowing Swedish troops to remain in positions east of Glomma. Hostilities broke out at Glomma, resulting in casualties, but the Norwegian forces were ordered to retreat. Peace negotiations with Swedish envoys began in the town of Moss on 10 August. On 14 August, the Convention of Moss was concluded, a general cease-fire based on terms that effectively were terms of peace.
Christian Frederik succeeded in excluding from the text any indication that Norway had recognized the Treaty of Kiel, and Sweden accepted that it was not to be considered a premise of the future union between the two states. Understanding the advantage of avoiding a costly war, and of letting Norway enter into a union voluntarily instead of being annexed as a conquered territory, something that, historically, the Swedes had never managed to do, Bernadotte offered favourable peace terms. He promised to recognize the Norwegian Constitution, with only those amendments that were necessary to open up for a union of the two countries. Christian Frederik agreed to call an extraordinary session of the Storting in September or October. He would then have to transfer his powers to the elected representatives of the people, who would negotiate the terms of the union with Sweden, and finally relinquish all claims to the Norwegian throne and leave the country. (source: wiki)

Sweden has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Smålandske Dragonregemente
Lifregementbrigadens kyrassiercorps
Mörnerska husarregementet
Skånska dragonregemente
Lätta Lifdragon regemente
Lifdragon regemente
Lätta dragoner
Karelska dragoncorpsen
Nylands dragonregemente
Jämtlands hästjägare
Kungliga jägarkåren till häst

Kalmar Regemente Infanteri
Södermanlands infanteriregemente
Andra gardesregementet
Lifgrenadierregemente
Drottningens lifregemente Grenadjäre
Drottningens lifregemente Jägare
Svea Lifgarde
Savolaks Jägareregemente
Tavastehus regemente
Royal Suédois

3-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
7-lber Foot Howitzer
5" Foot Howitzer
Finska Artilleriregementet

Navy (number=guns):
HMS Karl XIII(86)
HMS Karl XIV Johan(86)
HMS Vladislaff(74)
HMS Konung Gustav IV Adolf(74)
HMS Konung Adolf Fredrik(74)
HMS Göta Lejon
HMS Dristigheten(64)
HMS Tapperheten(64)
HMS Försiktigheten(64)
HMS Wasa (64)
HMS Hertig Ferdinand
HMS Prins Fredrik Adolf
HMS Äran
HMS Greve Södermanland(50)
HMS Bellona(38)
Fregatt Katarina(38)
Linjeskepp Kronprins Gustaf Adolph klass (64)
Fregatt (38)
Fregatt (32)
Carronadefregatt
Brigg
Slup
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Kanonslup
Handelsskepp (Merchantman type)
Handelsskepp (Indiaman type)

Lifregementbrigadens kyrassiercorps

[Iutland]

Koninkrijk België

With the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, the Austrian Netherlands declared their independence, but were reoccupied by the Austrians within a year. Following the Campaigns of 1794 of the French Revolutionary Wars, the Southern Netherlands were invaded and annexed by the First French Republic in 1795, ending Habsburg rule. They were divided into nine united départements and became an integral part of France. The Bishopric of Liège was dissolved. Its territory was divided over the départements Meuse-Inférieure and Ourte. Austria confirmed the loss of the Austrian Netherlands by the Treaty of Campo Formio, in 1797.
Until the establishment of the Consulate in 1799, Catholics were heavily repressed by the French. The University of Leuven (Louvain) was closed in 1797, priests were considered criminal, and churches were plundered. During this early period of the French rule, the Belgian economy was completely paralyzed: it was forbidden to export from the port of Antwerp, heavy taxes had to be paid in gold and silver coin, while goods bought by the French were paid for with worthless assignats. During this period of systematic exploitation, about 800,000 Belgians fled the Southern Netherlands. The French occupation in Belgium led to further suppression of the Dutch language across the country, including its abolition as an administrative language. With the motto "one nation, one language", French became the only accepted language in public life, as well as in economic, political, and social affairs. The measures of the successive French governments and in particular the 1798 massive conscription into the French army were particularly unpopular within the Flemish segment of the population and caused the Peasants' War. The Peasant's War is often seen as the starting point of the modern Flemish movement.
With the defeat and exile of Napoleon in 1814, French control of Belgium ended.
But in 1815, Napoleon's last campaign was fought out in Belgium. Having escaped from Elba, Napoleon resumed power in France (the Hundred Days), and attacked the Prussian and British armies then deployed in Belgium. On June 18, 1815, in the Battle of Waterloo, he was finally defeated.

William II of the Netherlands (then Prince of Orange) commanded Dutch and Belgian troops in the battle, and was knocked from his horse by a musket ball in the shoulder.
His father, King William I of the Netherlands, had a monument, the Butte du Lion, erected on the site of the younger William's wounding. It was completed in 1826.

After Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815, the major victorious powers (Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia) agreed at Congress of Vienna on reuniting the former Austrian Netherlands and the former Dutch Republic, creating the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, which was to serve as a buffer state against any future French invasions. This was under the rule of a Protestant king, namely William I of Orange. Most of the small and ecclesiastical states in the Holy Roman Empire were given to larger states at this time, and this included the Prince-Bishopric of Liège which became now formally part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

In August 1830, stirred by a performance of Auber's La Muette de Portici at the Brussels opera house La Monnaie (Dutch: De Munt), the Belgian Revolution broke out, and the country wrested its independence from the Dutch, aided by French intellectuals and French armed forces. The real political forces behind this were the Catholic clergy, which was against the Protestant Dutch king, William I, and the equally strong liberals, who opposed the royal authoritarianism, and the fact that the Belgians were not represented proportionally in the national assemblies. At first, the Revolution was merely a call for greater autonomy, but due to the clumsy responses of the Dutch king to the problem, and his unwillingness to meet the demands of the revolutionaries, the Revolution quickly escalated into a fight for full independence.
The European powers were fearful of Belgium either becoming a republic or being annexed to France, so they[who?] intervened and found a monarch invited in from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in Germany by the British. The major powers in Europe agreed, and on July 21, 1831, the first king of the Belgians, Leopold of Saxe-Coburg was inaugurated. This day is still the Belgian national holiday. Even though the Belgian Revolution violated the accords made in 1815, the Belgians received the sympathy of the liberal governments of both Great Britain and France. France itself had undergone a liberal revolution that year. The other major powers of Europe - Austria and Prussia - took a much dimmer view of Belgian independence but they were disinclined to take any action, being preoccupied with the November Uprising in Poland.
The Netherlands still fought on for 8 years, but in 1839 a treaty was signed between the two countries. Belgium thus became a sovereign, independent state with a liberal constitution (constitutional monarchy), but with suffrage restricted to the haute-bourgeoisie and the clergy, all together less than 1% of the adult population, and fully French speaking in a country where French was not the majority language.
By the treaty of 1839, Luxembourg did not fully join Belgium, and remained a possession of the Netherlands until different inheritance laws caused it to separate as an independent Grand Duchy. Belgium also lost Eastern Limburg, Zeeuws Vlaanderen and French Flanders (Dutch: Frans Vlaanderen) and Eupen, four territories which it had all claimed on historical grounds. The Netherlands retained the former two while French Flanders, which had been annexed at the time of Louis XIV remained in French possession, and Eupen remained within the German Confederation, although it would pass to Belgium after World War I as compensation for the war. (source: wiki) !Note that the inclusion of Belgium in the LME mod is not historical correct, but soldiers from Belgium fought at Waterloo and the faction is well worth including!

Belgium has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
2e Regiment Karabiniers
Dragonder
Lichte Dragonder
6e Regiment Hussaren

Belgische Infanterie van Linie
Belgische Lichte Infanterie
Jager

6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
7-lber Foot Howitzer
5,5" Foot Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Lichte Dragonder

[Iutland]

Confédération suisse

During the French Revolutionary Wars, the revolutionary armies marched eastward, enveloping Switzerland in their battles against Austria. In 1798 Switzerland was completely overrun by the French and became the Helvetic Republic. The Helvetic Republic encountered severe economic and political problems. In 1798 the country became a battlefield of the Revolutionary Wars, culminating in the Battles of Zürich in 1799.
In 1803 Napoleon's Act of Mediation reestablished a Swiss Confederation that partially restored the sovereignty of the cantons, and the former tributary and allied territories of Aargau, Thurgau, Graubünden, St. Gallen, Vaud and Ticino became cantons with equal rights.
The Congress of Vienna of 1815 fully re-established Swiss independence and the European powers agreed to permanently recognise Swiss neutrality. At this time, the territory of Switzerland was increased for the last time, by the new cantons of Valais, Neuchâtel and Geneva.
The Restoration, the time leading up to the Sonderbundskrieg, was marked with turmoil, and the rural population struggling against the yoke of the urban centres, for example in the Züriputsch of 1839.

Instability in the Republic reached its peak in 1802–03—including the Stecklikrieg civil war of 1802. Together with local resistance, financial problems caused the Helvetic Republic to collapse, and its government took refuge in Lausanne. Due to the instability of the situation, the Helvetic Republic had over 6 constitutions in a period of 4 years.
At that time Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul of France, summoned representatives of both sides to Paris in order to negotiate a solution. Although the Federalist representatives formed a minority at the conciliation conference, known as the "Helvetic Consulta"; Bonaparte characterised Switzerland as federal "by nature" and considered it unwise to force the area into any other constitutional framework.
On 19 February 1803, the Act of Mediation restored the cantons. With the abolition of the centralized state, Switzerland became a confederation once again.
The period of the Helvetic Republic is still very controversial within Switzerland. It represents the first time that Switzerland as a unified country existed and a step toward the modern federal state. For the first time the population was defined as Swiss, not as members of a specific canton. For cantons like Vaud, Thurgau and Ticino the Republic was a time of political freedom from other cantons. However the Republic also marked a time of foreign domination and revolution. For the cantons of Bern, Schwyz and Nidwalden it was a time of military defeat followed by occupation. In 1995 the Federal Parliament chose to not celebrate the 200 year anniversary of the Helvetic Republic, but to allow individual cantons to celebrate if they wished.

With Napoleon acting as a mediator and declaring that the natural political state of the Swiss is a Federation, the Act of Mediation dissolved the Helvetic Republic and addressed many of the issues that had torn the Republic apart. It restored the original 13 members of the old Confederation and added 6 new cantons, two (St Gallen and Graubünden or Grisons) having been formerly "associates", and the four others being made up of the subject lands conquered at different times — Aargau (1415), ThurgauTicino (1440, 1500, 1512), and Vaud (1536). In the Diet, six cantons which had a population of more than 100,000 (Bern, Zurich, Vaud, St Gallen, Graubünden and Aargau) were given two votes, the others having but one apiece. Meetings of the Diet were to be held alternately at Fribourg, Bern, Solothurn, Basel, Zurich and Lucerne.

The landsgemeinden, or popular assemblies, were restored in the democratic cantons, the cantonal governments in other cases being in the hands of a great council (legislative) and the small council.
There were to be no privileged classes, burghers or subject lands. Every Swiss citizen was to be free to move and settle anywhere in the new Confederation.
However the rights promised in the Act of Mediation soon began to vanish. In 1806 the principality of Neuchâtel was given to Marshal Berthier. Tessin was occupied by French troops from 1810 to 1813. Also, in 1810 the Valais was occupied and converted into the French department of the Simplon to secure the Simplon Pass. At home the liberty of moving from one canton to another (though given by the constitution) was, by the Diet in 1805, restricted by requiting ten years' residence, and then not granting political rights in the canton or a right of profiting by the communal property.
As soon as Napoleon's power began to wane (1812-1813), the position of Switzerland became endangered. The Austrians, supported by the reactionary party in Switzerland, and without any real resistance on the part of the Diet, crossed the border on 21 December 1813. On 29 December under pressure from Austria, the Diet abolished the 1803 constitution which had been created by Napoleon in the Act of Mediation.
On 6 April 1814 the so-called Long Diet met to replace the constitution. The Diet remained dead-locked until 12 September when Valais, Neuchatel and Geneva were raised to full members of the Confederation. This increased the number of cantons to 22. The Diet, however, made little progress until the Congress of Vienna.

On 20 March 1815 Bern was given the town of Biel/Bienne and much of the land that had been owned by the Bishop of Basel as compensation for territory lost during the Long Diet. The Valtellina, formerly owned by Graubunden, was granted to Austria. Muhlhausen (Mulhouse in French) was left as part of France.
On 7 August 1815 the new constitution was sworn to by all the cantons except Nidwalden. Nidwalden only agreed under military force on 30 August and as punishment lost Engelberg to Obwalden. By the new constitution the sovereign rights of each canton were fully recognized, and a return made to the lines of the old constitution, though there were to be no subject lands, and political rights were not to be the exclusive privilege of any class of citizens. Each canton had one vote in the Diet, where an absolute majority was to decide all matters save foreign affairs, when a majority of three-fourths was required. (source: wiki)

Switzerland has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Chasseurs á Cheval
Régiment de cavalerie de Bâle
Régiment de cavalerie de Zurich
Régiment de cavalerie de Thurgovie

Grenadiers à pied de Regiment Suisses
Bataillon Valaisan
Voltigeur de Regiment Suisses
Régiment d'infanterie de Argovie
Régiment d'infanterie de Saint-Gall
Régiment d'infanterie de Schwytz
Régiment d'infanterie de Soleure
Régiment d'infanterie de Berne

4-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
6" Foot Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Grenadiers à pied de Regiment Suisses

[Iutland]

Kurfürstentum Sachsen/Königreich Sachsen

The Kingdom of Saxony (German: Königreich Sachsen), lasting between 1806 and 1918, was an independent member of a number of historical confederacies in Napoleonic through post-Napoleonic Germany. From 1871 it was part of the German Empire. It became a Free state in the era of Weimar Republic in 1918 after the end of World War I and the abdication of King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony. Its capital was the city of Dresden, and its modern successor state is the Free State of Saxony.

Before 1806 Saxony was part of the Holy Roman Empire, a thousand-year-old entity which had once aspired to be a single state, but had become highly decentralised over the centuries. The rulers of Electorate of Saxony had held the title of elector for several centuries. When the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved following the defeat of Emperor Francis II by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz, the electorate was raised to the status of an independent kingdom with the support of France, then the dominant power in Central Europe. The last elector of Saxony became King Frederick Augustus I.
Following the defeat of Saxony's ally Prussia at the Battle of Jena in 1806, Saxony joined the Confederation of the Rhine, and remained within the Confederation until its dissolution in 1813 with Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Leipzig. Following the battle, in which Saxony - virtually alone of the German states - had fought alongside the French, King Frederick Augustus I was deserted by his troops, taken prisoner by the Prussians and considered to have forfeited his throne by the allies, who put Saxony under Russian occupation and administration. This was probably more due to the Prussian desire to annex Saxony than to any crime on Frederick Augustus's part, and the fate of Saxony would prove to be one of the main issues at the Congress of Vienna. In the end, 40% of the Kingdom, including the historically significant Wittenberg, home of the Protestant Reformation, was annexed by Prussia, but Frederick Augustus was restored to the throne in the remainder of his kingdom, which still included the major cities of Dresden and Leipzig. The Kingdom also joined the German Confederation, the new organization of the German states to replace the Holy Roman Empire.

The Confederation of the Rhine or Rhine Confederation (German: Rheinbund; French: États confédérés du Rhin officially and Confédération du Rhin in practice) was a confederation of client states of the First French Empire. It was formed initially from 16 German states by Napoleon after he defeated Austria's Francis II and Russia's Alexander I in the Battle of Austerlitz. The Treaty of Pressburg, in effect, led to the creation of the Confederation of the Rhine. It lasted from 1806 to 1813.
The members of the confederation were German princes (Fürsten) from the Holy Roman Empire. They were later joined by 19 others, all together ruling a total of over 15 million subjects providing a significant strategic advantage to the French Empire on its eastern front.

On 12 July 1806, on signing the Treaty of the Confederation of the Rhine (German: Rheinbundakte), 16 states in present-day Germany formally left the Holy Roman Empire and joined together in a confederation (the treaty called it the états confédérés du Rhin, with a precursor in the League of the Rhine). Napoleon was its "protector." On 6 August, following an ultimatum by Napoleon, Francis II gave up his title of Emperor and declared the Holy Roman Empire dissolved. In the years that followed, 23 more German states joined the Confederation; Francis's Habsburg dynasty would rule the remainder of the empire as Austria. Only Austria, Prussia, Danish Holstein, and Swedish Pomerania stayed outside, not counting the west bank of the Rhine and Principality of Erfurt, which were annexed by the French empire.
According to the treaty, the confederation was to be run by common constitutional bodies, but the individual states (in particular the larger ones) wanted unlimited sovereignty.
Instead of a monarchical head of state, as the Holy Roman Emperor had been, its highest office was held by Karl Theodor von Dalberg, the former Arch Chancellor, who now bore the title of a Prince-Primate of the confederation. As such, he was President of the College of Kings and presided over the Diet of the Confederation, designed to be a parliament-like body though it never actually assembled. The President of the Council of the Princes was the Prince of Nassau-Usingen.
The Confederation was above all a military alliance: the members had to supply France with large numbers of military personnel. In return for their cooperation some state rulers were given higher statuses: Baden, Hesse, Cleves, and Berg were made into grand duchies, and Württemberg and BavariaKleinstaaten," or small former imperial member states.

After Prussia lost to France in 1806, many medium-sized and small states joined the Rheinbund. It was at its largest in 1808, including four kingdoms, five grand duchies, 13 duchies, seventeen principalities, and the Free Hansa towns of Hamburg, Lübeck, and Bremen.
In 1810 large parts of northwest Germany were quickly incorporated into the Napoleonic Empire in order to better monitor the trade embargo with Great Britain, the Continental System.
The Confederation of the Rhine collapsed in 1813, with the aftermath of Napoleon's failed campaign against the Russian Empire. Many of its members changed sides after the Battle of the Nations, when it became apparent Napoleon would lose the War of the Sixth Coalition. (source: wiki)

Saxony has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Leib-Kürassier-Garde
Kürassier-Regiment von Zastrow
Chevaulegers-Regiment von Polenz
Chevaulegers-Regiment Prinz Albrecht
Chevaulegers-Regiment Prinz Johann
Königlich Sächsische Husar-Regiment
Ulan-Regiment
Lanzenreiter
Carabinier

Königlich Sächsische Leibgrenadier-Garde
Grenadierbataillon von Winkelmann
Infanterie-Regiment Prinz Maximilian
Infanterie-Regiment Prinz Clemens
Infanterie-Regiment von Niesemeuschel
Infanterie-Regiment König
Infanterie-Regiment Prinz Anton
Infanterie-Regiment Prinz Maximilian
Infanterie-Regiment Prinz Friedrich August
Infanterie-Regiment von Rechten
Infanterie-Regiment von Low
Grenader vom Regiment der Herzöge von Sachsen
Sächsische Füsilier
Voltigeure
Sächsische Jäger
Regiment der Herzöge von Sachsen, Jäger
Infanterie von Saxe-Weimar
Infanterie von Saxe-Gotha

6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
7-lber Foot Howitzer
10-lber Foot Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Carabinier

[Iutland]

Herzogtum Württemberg/Königreich Württemberg

Frederick II (1754–1816), a prince who modelled himself on Frederick the Great, took part in the war against France in defiance of the wishes of his people, and when the French again invaded and devastated the country he retired to Erlangen, where he remained until after the conclusion of the peace of Lunéville on 9 February 1801. By a private treaty with France, signed in March 1802, he ceded his possessions on the left bank of the Rhine, receiving in return nine imperial towns, among them ReutlingenHeilbronn, and some other territories, amounting altogether to about 850 square miles (2,200 km²) and containing about 124,000 inhabitants. He also accepted from Napoleon in 1803 the title of elector. The new districts were not incorporated with the duchy, but remained separate; they were known as "New Württemberg" and were ruled without a diet. Other areas were acquired in 1803-06 as part of the German Mediatisation process.
In 1805 Württemberg took up arms on the side of France, and by the Treaty of Pressburg in December 1805 the elector received as reward various Austrian possessions in Swabia and other lands in the area.

On 1 January 1806 Duke Frederick II assumed the title of king as King Frederick I, abrogated the constitution and united old and new Württemberg. Subsequently he placed the property of the church under the control of the kingdom, whose boundaries were also greatly extended by the "mediatisation" process.
In 1806 he joined the Confederation of the Rhine and received further additions of territory containing 160,000 inhabitants; a little later, by the peace of Vienna in October 1809, about 110,000 more persons came under his rule. In return for these favours Frederick joined Napoleon Bonaparte in his campaigns against Prussia, Austria and Russia, and of 16,000 of his subjects who marched to Moscow only a few hundred returned. Then, after the Battle of Leipzig (October 1813), King Frederick deserted the waning fortunes of the French emperor, and by a treaty made with Metternich at Fulda in November 1813 he secured the confirmation of his royal title and of his recent acquisitions of territory, while his troops marched with those of the allies into France. In 1815 the king joined the German Confederation, but the Congress of Vienna made no change in the extent of his lands. In the same year he laid before the representatives of his people the outline of a new constitution, but they rejected this, and in the midst of the commotion Frederick died (30 October 1816).

The Confederation of the Rhine or Rhine Confederation (German: Rheinbund; French: États confédérés du Rhin officially and Confédération du Rhin in practice) was a confederation of client states of the First French Empire. It was formed initially from 16 German states by Napoleon after he defeated Austria's Francis II and Russia's Alexander I in the Battle of Austerlitz. The Treaty of Pressburg, in effect, led to the creation of the Confederation of the Rhine. It lasted from 1806 to 1813.
The members of the confederation were German princes (Fürsten) from the Holy Roman Empire. They were later joined by 19 others, all together ruling a total of over 15 million subjects providing a significant strategic advantage to the French Empire on its eastern front.

On 12 July 1806, on signing the Treaty of the Confederation of the Rhine (German: Rheinbundakte), 16 states in present-day Germany formally left the Holy Roman Empire and joined together in a confederation (the treaty called it the états confédérés du Rhin, with a precursor in the League of the Rhine). Napoleon was its "protector." On 6 August, following an ultimatum by Napoleon, Francis II gave up his title of Emperor and declared the Holy Roman Empire dissolved. In the years that followed, 23 more German states joined the Confederation; Francis's Habsburg dynasty would rule the remainder of the empire as Austria. Only Austria, Prussia, Danish Holstein, and Swedish Pomerania stayed outside, not counting the west bank of the Rhine and Principality of Erfurt, which were annexed by the French empire.
According to the treaty, the confederation was to be run by common constitutional bodies, but the individual states (in particular the larger ones) wanted unlimited sovereignty.
Instead of a monarchical head of state, as the Holy Roman Emperor had been, its highest office was held by Karl Theodor von Dalberg, the former Arch Chancellor, who now bore the title of a Prince-Primate of the confederation. As such, he was President of the College of Kings and presided over the Diet of the Confederation, designed to be a parliament-like body though it never actually assembled. The President of the Council of the Princes was the Prince of Nassau-Usingen.
The Confederation was above all a military alliance: the members had to supply France with large numbers of military personnel. In return for their cooperation some state rulers were given higher statuses: Baden, Hesse, Cleves, and Berg were made into grand duchies, and Württemberg and BavariaKleinstaaten," or small former imperial member states.

After Prussia lost to France in 1806, many medium-sized and small states joined the Rheinbund. It was at its largest in 1808, including four kingdoms, five grand duchies, 13 duchies, seventeen principalities, and the Free Hansa towns of Hamburg, Lübeck, and Bremen.
In 1810 large parts of northwest Germany were quickly incorporated into the Napoleonic Empire in order to better monitor the trade embargo with Great Britain, the Continental System.
The Confederation of the Rhine collapsed in 1813, with the aftermath of Napoleon's failed campaign against the Russian Empire. Many of its members changed sides after the Battle of the Nations, when it became apparent Napoleon would lose the War of the Sixth Coalition. (source: wiki)

Württemberg has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Reitende Grenadiere
Jäger zu Pferd der Regiment Herzog Louis
Dragoner-Regiment Kronprinz
Leib-Jäger zu Pferd
Lanzenreiter
Dragoner
Garde du Corps

Württembergische Grenadiere
Garde-Regiment Grenadiere
Voltigeure
6. Infanterie-Regiment Kronprinz
Garde-Regiment Voltigeure
Garde-Regiment Füsiliere
4. Infanterie-Regiment Franquemont
Leib-Infanterie-Regiment Großherzog
Badische Grenadiere
Badische Musketiere
Badische Füsiliere
Badische Voltigeure
Leib-Grenadier-Garde

6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
7-lber Foot Howitzer
6" Foot Howitzer
Garde-Fussartillerie
Reitende Garde-Artillerie

Navy (number=guns):
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Reitende Grenadiere

[Iutland]

Königreich Westphalen

The Kingdom of Westphalia was a historical landlocked state that existed from 1807-1813 in parts of present-day Germany. While formally independent, it was a vassal state of the First French Empire, ruled by Napoléon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte. It was named after Westphalia, but it is a misnomer since the kingdom had little territory in common with that area.

The Kingdom of Westphalia was created in 1807 by merging territories ceded by the Kingdom of Prussia in the Peace of Tilsit, among them the Duchy of Magdeburg, the Brunswick-Luneburgian former Electorate of Hanover, the Brunswick-Lunenburgian Principality of Wolfenbüttel, and the Electorate of Hesse. The latter's capital Kassel then fulfilled the same function for Westphalia, and the king kept court at the palace of Wilhelmshöhe, re-named Napoleonshöhe. The state was a member of the Confederation of the Rhine.
Intended as a Napoleonic "model state", a constitution was written and enacted by King Jérôme on 7 December 1807, the day after he had arrived in Kassel, making Westphalia the first monarchy in Germany with a modern-style constitution. The constitution made all male residents citizens of equal rights. Thus serfs were liberated and Jews emancipated, soccage was abolished. The Napoleonic code was enacted, doing away with guilds and providing for the right of free enterprise. A metric system of weights and measures was introduced. Just as before the conquest, freedom of expression remained curtailed and censorship was instituted. In 1810 the coastal and northern départements North (capital: Stade) and Lower Elbe (capital: Lunenburg) had to be ceded to the French Empire.
Following the French example, Jewish congregations were reorganised and a Consistory supervising them was established. The former Brunswick-Wolfenbüttelian merchant and man of letters, Israel Jacobson, became its consistorial president, assisted by a board of officers. Jacobson did his best to exercise a reforming influence upon the various congregations of the country. He opened a house of prayer in Kassel, with a ritual similar to that introduced in Seesen. Napoléon's inglorious so-called décret infâme, restricting again the rights of many French Jews, did not apply in Westphalia.
A significant burden on the kingdom was the requirement to supply troops and financial support for the Napoleonic wars. Large numbers of Westphalian troops perished in the Russian campaign of 1812; the Westphalian Guards heroically but unsuccessfully charged the Raevski Redoubt during the Battle of Borodino.
In September 1813 Russian cossacks surrounded Kassel, defeated the French completely and retook the city. By October 1 the cossacks had conquered the whole Kingdom, but three days later Jérôme returned with French soldiers and managed to recapture Kassel. The Elector of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) arrived soon after and the cossacks besieged the city again. After France lost the Battle of the Nations on 19 October 1813, the Russians dissolved the Kingdom and restored the status quo of 1806 (although Kaunitz-Rietberg and Stolberg-Wernigerode were not recreated). (source: wiki)


Westphalia has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Gendarmerie
Garde Lanzenreiter Regiment
Lanzenreiter
Nationalgarde vom Grossherzogtum Kleve und Berg
Dragoner
Garde-Chevaulegers-Regiment
2. Husarenregiment
1er Régiment de Cuirassiers
Bergische Jäger zu Pferde

5. Rheinbund-Infanterie-Regiment der Fürstendivision
6. Rheinbund-Infanterie-Regiment der Fürstendivision
Westphälisches Grenadiere
Voltigeure
Freiwilligen Jäger
Voltigeure der Infanterie-Regiment Königin
Westphalie, Chasseurs de la Garde
Westphalie, Fusilier de la Garde
Bergische Grenadiere
Bergische Musketiere
Bergische Voltigeure
Karabiniers der leichten Infanterie

6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
7-lber Foot Howitzer
10-lber Foot Howitzer
Garde-Fussartillerie
Reitende Garde-Artillerie

Navy (number=guns):
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Garde-Fussartillerie