Dörnberg Against Bonaparte: Westphalia 1809

This scarce antiquarian book is a translation of the original. Due to its age and the use of German Fraktur typeface, the resulting translation into modern English may contain minor imperfections in the body of work.Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, contemporary editions that are a best attempt to a factual translation to the original work.The translated works of Curt Hotzel's, "Bauern Gegen Bonaparte: Hessen-Kassel 1809," Carl Scherer's "Zur Geschichte des Do¨rnbergischen Aufstandes im Jahre 1809, and Wilhem Lange's "Kleine Beiträge zur Geschichte der Insurrektionen gegen die westfälische Regierung" are about the Dörnberg Uprising, aiming to occupy Kassel, the capital of Westphalia during the reign of Napoleon's youngest brother, King Jerome Bonaparte. These works unfolds to the reader in a captivating and striking manner. This is a high interest book for those interested in military accounts with the first written in novel form and the latter in a more detailed documented manner, thereby offering a feel of an intimate record of this historic event during the French occupation of Hessen-Kassel.