Ka cika wannan jumlar: Pressburg ta kuma taka muhimmiyar rawa a siyasar Turai a farkon ƙarni na 19. A cikin 1805, na huɗu kuma mafi sanannun Yarjejeniyar Pressburg an sanya hannu ta Austria da Faransa bayan nasarar Napoleon I a cikin
Yaƙin Austerlitz. Shekaru hudu bayan haka, sojojin Napoleon sun kewaye da harbe-harben birnin kuma Napoleon da kansa ya ziyarci Pressburg. Dévény Castle ya zama rushewa ta sojojin Faransa a 1809 kuma an lalata Castle Pressburg ba da gangan ba ta hanyar wuta a 1811 (ya kasance cikin kango har zuwa shekarun 1950).