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... desire to avenge Waterloo ' would have been three - fourths fulfilled : England alone would have stood erect and unassailed - for how long ? As to France her- self - with the Napoleonic legend rehabilitated , Cęsarism and the military ...
... desire to avenge Waterloo ' would have been three - fourths fulfilled : England alone would have stood erect and unassailed - for how long ? As to France her- self - with the Napoleonic legend rehabilitated , Cęsarism and the military ...
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... some of her best statesmen . Second , the attempted invasion of Prussia by a Napoleon who had made himself the organ of the Napoleonic 6 ideas , ' and who had professed his desire PUBLIC OPINION IN ENGLAND ON THE LATE WAR . 7.
... some of her best statesmen . Second , the attempted invasion of Prussia by a Napoleon who had made himself the organ of the Napoleonic 6 ideas , ' and who had professed his desire PUBLIC OPINION IN ENGLAND ON THE LATE WAR . 7.
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... desire to ' tear up the treaties of 1815. ' Third , the declaration of the French Minister , M. Olivier , that he entered upon the war with lightness of heart , ' and the rejoicings in Paris at a war from which the French people ...
... desire to ' tear up the treaties of 1815. ' Third , the declaration of the French Minister , M. Olivier , that he entered upon the war with lightness of heart , ' and the rejoicings in Paris at a war from which the French people ...
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... desire to avenge Sadowa ' re- mained , and the very phrase expresses the unhealthy action of the Napoleonic legend upon the French mind . Austria had sought to avenge her own defeat it would have been very natural ; but France had ...
... desire to avenge Sadowa ' re- mained , and the very phrase expresses the unhealthy action of the Napoleonic legend upon the French mind . Austria had sought to avenge her own defeat it would have been very natural ; but France had ...
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... desire of France to keep her neighbours weak and divided , came into conflict with something more than the desire , the firm resolution of Germany to be no longer weak nor divided , but , whether under Prussia or otherwise , to put an ...
... desire of France to keep her neighbours weak and divided , came into conflict with something more than the desire , the firm resolution of Germany to be no longer weak nor divided , but , whether under Prussia or otherwise , to put an ...
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