Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Prussia ta janye daga Coalition na farko
a cikin Zaman Lafiya na Basel (1795), ya ba da yankunan Rhenish zuwa Faransa. Bayan mutuwar Frederick William II a shekara ta 1797, jihar ta rushe kuma sojojin sun tsufa. Ɗansa, Frederick William III (1797<unk>1840) ne ya gaje shi, wanda ya haɗa Prussia a cikin bala'i na Hudu na Hudu. Sojojin Prussian sun sha kaye a yakin Saalfeld, Jena da Auerstedt a 1806 kuma Napoleon ya mamaye Berlin. Shahararren horo na Prussians ya rushe kuma ya haifar da mika wuya a tsakanin sojojin soja, da sojan doki da kuma garuruwa. Duk da yake wasu kwamandojin Prussian sun ba da kansu sosai, kamar L'Estocq a Eylau, Gneisenau a Kolberg, da Blücher a Lübeck, ba su isa su juyar da rashin nasarar Jena-Auerstedt ba. Prussia ta mika wuya ga manyan asarar yankuna, dakarun dakarun sojoji na maza 42,000 kawai, da kuma kawance da Faransa a cikin Yarjejeniyar Tilsit (1807).