The Treaties of Tilsit (French: Traités de Tilsit, German: Friede von Tilsit, Russian: Тильзитский мир, romanized: Tilzitski mir) were two agreements signed by French Emperor Napoleon in ...
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the town of Tilsit in July 1807 in the aftermath of his victory at Friedland. The first was signed on 7 July, between Napoleon and Russian Emperor Alexander, when they met on a raft in the middle of the Neman River. The second was signed with Prussia on 9 July. The treaties were made at the expense of King Frederick William III of Prussia, who had already agreed to a truce on 25 June after the Grande Armée had captured Berlin and pursued him to the easternmost frontier of his realm. In Tilsit, he ceded about half of his pre-war territories.[page needed] [page needed]
