On July 7, 1807, Napoleon Bonaparte signed the first of the Treaties of Tilsit. This was with Emperor Alexander I of Russia, which established an alliance between the French Empire and Imperial Russia that would endure forever, or for the next five years, whichever came first. The second Treaty of Tilsit was signed on July 9 on behalf of the King of Prussia. Prussia had already signed an armistice with France a couple weeks earlier, but the purpose of this treaty was to demand territory from Prussia. From this territory, Napoleon set up the puppet states of the Kingdom of Westphalia, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland), and the Duchy of Warsaw. Prussia was stripped of about half of its territory, and was forced to reduce its army significantly. Russia entered into war with Great Britain and Sweden when it aligned itself with France, which was great news for France. France was shaping up like a military juggernaut in Europe; no continental power seemed strong enough to