Fresh from his great victory at Austerlitz, Napoleon’s next campaign saw him take on Prussia in the autumn of 1806. Prussia’s army had been feared throughout Europe since the days of Frederick the Great, but in just 5 weeks of ‘Napoleonic Blitzkrieg’, the French Emperor showed that those days were long gone.

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