History of Europe, from the Commencement of the French Revolution, in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815, Band 8W. Blackwood, 1870 |
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... empire ; excommunication of Napoleon , ib.— Arrest of the Pope , 220. - Fusion of the Roman States with the French Empire , 222. - Effect of this measure on the independence of the Church , ib . - Works undertaken by the French at Rome ...
... empire ; excommunication of Napoleon , ib.— Arrest of the Pope , 220. - Fusion of the Roman States with the French Empire , 222. - Effect of this measure on the independence of the Church , ib . - Works undertaken by the French at Rome ...
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... empire was founded entirely on opinion ; that it was the minds of men whom his own victories and those of the Revolution had really subdued ; and that , great as their tri- umphs had really been , it was the imaginative idea of their ...
... empire was founded entirely on opinion ; that it was the minds of men whom his own victories and those of the Revolution had really subdued ; and that , great as their tri- umphs had really been , it was the imaginative idea of their ...
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... Empire . So far had the demands of that the cabinet of Vienna was only the French Emperor already exceeded imitating the conduct of its powerful the increase of the human race , and the neighbours ; and that , when Bavaria boundless ...
... Empire . So far had the demands of that the cabinet of Vienna was only the French Emperor already exceeded imitating the conduct of its powerful the increase of the human race , and the neighbours ; and that , when Bavaria boundless ...
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... empire . So early as February 1808 , he had writ- ten to the Czar , expressing his desire to settle now in a ... empire , are at his disposal . Your master wishes to in- terest Austria in the dismemberment of the Turkish empire ; he is ...
... empire . So early as February 1808 , he had writ- ten to the Czar , expressing his desire to settle now in a ... empire , are at his disposal . Your master wishes to in- terest Austria in the dismemberment of the Turkish empire ; he is ...
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... empire in Finland and on the Danube , which was likely to follow an adher- ence to his present engagements . Thus , while both these great potentates were lavishing professions of friendship and regard to each other , they were in ...
... empire in Finland and on the Danube , which was likely to follow an adher- ence to his present engagements . Thus , while both these great potentates were lavishing professions of friendship and regard to each other , they were in ...
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amidst Andalusia Antwerp Archduke Charles Archduke John arms arrived artillery Aspern assailed attack Austrian bank battle battle of Aspern battle of Wagram Bavarians Breitenlee bridge British cabinet campaign capital cavalry centre columns combat command commenced contest corps cuirassiers Danube Davoust defeat defence despatched direction disaster division Duke effect Emperor empire enemy enemy's English Europe fell fire flank force fortress France French army front frontier Galicia garrison Guard guns horse hundred Imperial infantry Landshut Lannes Lobau Madrid Marshal Massena ment military mountains Napo Napoleon Peninsula pieces of cannon Portugal position prisoners provinces Ratisbon rear regiments resistance retired retreat river road Russia sand Saragossa Scheldt side siege sion Sir John Moore soldiers soon Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish Spechbacher strength success Tagus tain thou thousand strong tion took town twenty thousand Tyrol Tyrolese valley victory Vienna vigour Wagram Wellington whole wounded
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Seite 224 - Being existed with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.
Seite 32 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Seite 31 - It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me;" — and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.
Seite 194 - Pitt, who, since his election, has accepted the office of First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Seite 31 - the people of England will be satisfied ! I hope my country will do me justice ! ' These precious sentences were among the last he uttered : his sufferings were not long : he expired with the hand of Colonel Anderson pressed firmly in his own.
Seite 295 - In the youth of a state, arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.
Seite 247 - The negotiations occupied six days, when conditions were agreed to — that the garrison should march out with the honours of war, and that all the ammunition, stores, &c., in the castle be delivered up without injury to the besieging army.
Seite 300 - France, which deprived it of the happiness of being one day governed by the descendants of a great man, evidently raised up by Providence to efface the evils of a terrible revolution, and to re-establish the altar, the throne, and social order.
Seite 272 - ... ordnance, upon travelling carriages, should be sent to Portugal, with a view to the occupation of certain positions in the country ; that a corps of engineers for an army of 60,000 men should be sent there, and a corps of artillery for sixty pieces of cannon. " I understand that the British army now in Portugal consists of 20,000 men, including cavalry. It should be made up 20,000 infantry, at least, as soon as .possible, by additions...
Seite 32 - Sir John Moore, I need not expatiate on the loss the army and his country have sustained by his death. His fall has deprived me of a valuable friend, to whom long experience of his worth had sincerely attached me.