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On 7 July 1807, France and Russia signed the Treaty of Tilsit after a staged reconciliation on a raft in the Neman. Prussia was carved in half two days later. The alliance it built was the high point of Napoleon's power and the start of its unravelling.
On 21 June 1813, Wellington encircled Joseph Bonaparte near Vitoria and drove the French from Spain in a single afternoon. The road north was covered in abandoned guns, gold, and paintings. A six-year occupation ended in a rout.
On 22 January 1808, the Portuguese royal court arrived in Brazil after fleeing Napoleon. The colony became the empire's capital, Britain got the trade access it had always wanted, and Portugal spent a decade governing itself from the wrong continent.