A History of Modern Europe: From the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1792 to the accession of Louis XVIII, in 1814. 2d ed., rev. 1891H. Holt, 1890 |
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Página 410 - Venetia ; but it was impossible to pursue these advantages when the capital itself was on the point of falling into the hands of the enemy. The invading armies halted, and ere long the Archduke John commenced his retreat into the mountains. In Northern Germany no popular uprising could be expected when once Austria had been defeated. The only movements that took place were undertaken by soldiers, and undertaken before the disasters in Bavaria be- Atifmnt«of came known.
Página 42 - Majesties will hold all the members of the National Assembly, of the Municipality, and of the National Guard of Paris, responsible for all events with their heads, before military tribunals, without hope of pardon. They further declare that, if the...
Página 267 - France but by common consent ; conquests made by any of the belligerents were to remain unappropriated until the general peace ; and at the termination of the war a Congress was to fix certain disputed points of international right, and to establish a federative European system for their maintenance and enforcement. As the immediate objects of the League, the treaty specified the expulsion of the French from Holland, Switzerland, Italy, and Northern Germany; the re-establishment of the King of Sardinia...
Página 132 - which has been in decadence since the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope and the rise of Trieste and Ancona, can scarcely survive the blows we have just struck. With a cowardly and helpless population in no way fit for liberty, without territory and without rivers, it is but natural that she should go to those to whom we give the mainland.
Página 468 - ... that had quitted Moscow there now remained but 10,000 combatants and 20,000 followers. Kutusoff himself was brought to such a state of exhaustion that he could carry the pursuit no further, and entered into quarters upon the Dnieper. It was a few days after the battle at Krasnoi that victor ioin.
Página 462 - September Napoleon took possession of Moscow. His troops marched through silent and deserted streets. In the solitude of the Kremlin Napoleon received the homage of a few foreigners, who alone could be collected by his servants to tender to him the submission of the city. But the worst was yet to come. On the night after Napoleon's entry, fires broke out in different parts of Moscow. They were ascribed at...
Página 195 - Bonaparte ; and up to this point Bonaparte quietly accepted Sieyes' plan. But the general had his own scheme for what was. to follow. Sieyes might apportion the act of deliberation among debating societies and dumb juries to the full extent of his own ingenuity ; but the moment that he applied his disintegrating method to the Executive, Bonaparte swept away the flimsy reasoner, and set in the midst of his edifice of shadows the reality of an absolute personal rule. The phantom Elector, and the Consuls...
Página 160 - I see the finest Country in the world full of resources, yet not enough to supply the public wants : all are plundering who can get at Public money or stores. In my own line I can speak. A Neapolitan Ship of the Line would cost more than ten English Ships fitting out. Five Sail of the Line must ruin the Country.
Página 463 - Alexander,s resistance would end with the fall of his capital. The events that accompanied the entry of the French into Moscow shook his confidence; yet even now Napoleon could not believe that the Czar remained firm against all thoughts of peace. His experience in all earlier wars had given him confidence in the power of one conspicuous disaster to unhinge the resolutions of kings.
Página 292 - Western Germany under its native princes as a dependency of France. The object at which all French politicians had aimed since the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, the exclusion of both Austria and Prussia from influence in "Western Germany, was now completely attained. The triumph of French statesmanship, the consummation of two centuries of German discord, was seen in the Act of Federation subscribed by the Western German Sovereigns in the summer of 1806. By this Act the Kings of Bavaria and...