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... followed up Sedan with its hundred thousand prisoners , by Metz with twice that number , and Paris with four times as many , Europe owes the destruction of Napoleonism , its greatest curse and danger . If , then , deliverance from the ...
... followed up Sedan with its hundred thousand prisoners , by Metz with twice that number , and Paris with four times as many , Europe owes the destruction of Napoleonism , its greatest curse and danger . If , then , deliverance from the ...
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... followed had those intentions been carried into effect . For the military qualities and traditions of France , and the fact that success begets success , led her to expect that as Russia and Austria had been humbled by her arms , so ...
... followed had those intentions been carried into effect . For the military qualities and traditions of France , and the fact that success begets success , led her to expect that as Russia and Austria had been humbled by her arms , so ...
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... followed from her victory . There is every reason to believe that the success of the French arms in 1870 would have endangered the peace and independence of continental Europe , injured the best interests of England , and fatally ...
... followed from her victory . There is every reason to believe that the success of the French arms in 1870 would have endangered the peace and independence of continental Europe , injured the best interests of England , and fatally ...
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... followed , the most valuable ) advice ever given by one country to another . With Prussia she had the claim of having rightly judged the original quarrel , and having found an easy and honourable way for France to retreat from a false ...
... followed , the most valuable ) advice ever given by one country to another . With Prussia she had the claim of having rightly judged the original quarrel , and having found an easy and honourable way for France to retreat from a false ...
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... followed by the occupation of Paris . We have then the Second Empire , established like the First , by a ' whiff of grape - shot , ' and the virtual suppression of all Frenchmen except the military . Then , on the credit side , we have ...
... followed by the occupation of Paris . We have then the Second Empire , established like the First , by a ' whiff of grape - shot , ' and the virtual suppression of all Frenchmen except the military . Then , on the credit side , we have ...
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