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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE YEAR 1805. THE year 1805 was fertile in startling events. It opened with insincere assurances of peace and good will addressed to the sovereigns of Austria and England?assurances based upon the assumption that Napoleon was to be perfectly free to treat the lesser states on the Continent as he liked, and to violate the treaty of Luneville which guaranteed the independence of the Italian, Helvetian, and Batavian republics. The unfavourable reply which Lord Mulgrave returned to the overtures of the French Emperor was read out in the three French chambers, and commented upon in the most violent manner. It was considered necessary to prove to the French people that England raised insuperable obstacles to that peace so ardently desired by Napoleon. Naval and military armaments were being feverishly carried on throughout France; it was evident that the new Emperor meditated striking another blow, extending his dominion, and keeping the countries over which his armies had swept. It might be said of him that? He stood like a hawk, with the down on his beak, And stared, with his foot on the prey. His troops lined the shores of the Channel; his flotilla was being daily increased, and his squadrons were preparing for that naval campaign which was to end in the OBJECTS OF THE COALITION. 105 destruction of England. Had not medals been struck to commemorate the capture of London, and stamped as if cast in London ? In April, England and Russia signed a secret convention similar to that which had been signed between Russia and Austria in November, 1804, and one which had previously been signed between Russia and Prussia. With the view of preventing further encroachments on the part of France the coalition proposed to raise a force of 500,000 men in order to...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217769242
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 144
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217769241
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 268 gr


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