Tugendbund ('league of virtue'), a Prussian patriotic union founded at Königsberg in 1808, ostensibly for the promotion of social and other reforms, actually aimed at throwing off the French yoke; it was dissolved under pressure from Napoleon in 1809.
Tugendbund
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 319
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