The Franco-Prussian War: Its Causes, Incidents, and Consequences, Volume 2W. Mackenzie, 1870 - Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 |
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... seemed to invite the enemy , who would be anxious only to hurry on and strike the decisive blow . Paris fortified , that sort of war would be M. Thiers and his cabinet entered heartily into the work 8 THE FRANCO - PRUSSIAN WAR .
... seemed to invite the enemy , who would be anxious only to hurry on and strike the decisive blow . Paris fortified , that sort of war would be M. Thiers and his cabinet entered heartily into the work 8 THE FRANCO - PRUSSIAN WAR .
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... seemed for a time to be well - nigh paralyzed . The streets were deserted ; the shops were either not opened , or were closed again long before the usual hour . The faces of the few stragglers who might be seen reading the ominous ...
... seemed for a time to be well - nigh paralyzed . The streets were deserted ; the shops were either not opened , or were closed again long before the usual hour . The faces of the few stragglers who might be seen reading the ominous ...
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... seemed to want to penetrate into the Tuileries ; but when I got to the quay I had great difficulty in moving through the huge mass , which stretched from a long way beyond the Pont Neuf , far up in the Champs Elysées . I witnessed , not ...
... seemed to want to penetrate into the Tuileries ; but when I got to the quay I had great difficulty in moving through the huge mass , which stretched from a long way beyond the Pont Neuf , far up in the Champs Elysées . I witnessed , not ...
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... seemed only a little episode , by which the stern purpose of the invaders re- mained unshaken and unaltered . Their goal was Paris ; and orders were issued that by the 14th of September the battalions were to be each in posi- tion at a ...
... seemed only a little episode , by which the stern purpose of the invaders re- mained unshaken and unaltered . Their goal was Paris ; and orders were issued that by the 14th of September the battalions were to be each in posi- tion at a ...
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... seemed sufficiently serious to cause the Bavarian general , Von Hartmann , to suspend the advance of the two brigades in front until he could bring the other two up to their sup- port . A pause thus ensued in the fire on both sides ...
... seemed sufficiently serious to cause the Bavarian general , Von Hartmann , to suspend the advance of the two brigades in front until he could bring the other two up to their sup- port . A pause thus ensued in the fire on both sides ...
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advance Alsace ancient arms Artenay artillery attack Baden Basel battalions batteries battle Bavarian Bazaine besiegers bombardment Bourbaki capital capitulation captured castle cathedral cavalry century Chanzy Chassepots Châteaudun church columns command Constanz corps Count von Bismarck D'Aurelles d'Aurelles de Paladine defence despatch division duke emperor enemy erected feet fight fire force fortifications fortress forts France French army front Gambetta garrison German army grand-duke guns honour houses imperial infantry inhabitants investment Jules Favre king Loire Marshal Marshal Bazaine Mecklenburg ment Metz miles military mobiles morning Moselle national guards night o'clock occupied officers Orleans Paris peace population position Prince Frederick Charles prisoners Prussian railway regiment republic retreat Rhine river road Roman ruins Schaffhausen sent shells side siege soldiers sortie Strassburg surrender TAYLOR INSTITUTION Thiers tion tower town treaty Trochu troops valley Versailles victory village Von der Tann walls Werder wounded
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Page 298 - The negligently grand, the fruitful bloom Of coming ripeness, the white city's sheen, The rolling stream, the precipice's gloom, The forest's growth, and Gothic walls between, The wild rocks shaped as they had turrets been, In mockery of man's art ; and these withal A race of faces happy as the scene, Whose fertile bounties here extend to all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though empires near them fall.
Page 182 - That noble, patient, deep, pious, and solid Germany should be at length welded into a nation, and become Queen of the Continent, instead of vapouring, vainglorious, gesticulating, quarrelsome, restless, and over-sensitive France, seems to me the hopefullest public fact that has occurred in my time.
Page 6 - By the grace of God and the national will, Emperor of the French...
Page 299 - As it flows down from the distant ridges of the Alps, through fertile regions into the open sea, so it comes down from remote antiquity, associated in every age with momentous events in the history of the neighbouring nations.
Page 299 - ... and negotiations of modern times, of the coronations of emperors, whose bones repose by its side ; on whose borders stand the two grandest monuments of the noble architecture of the middle ages ; whose banks present every variety of wild and picturesque rocks, thick forests, fertile plains; vineyards, sometimes gently sloping, sometimes perched among lofty crags, where industry has won a domain among the fortresses of nature; whose banks are ornamented with populous cities, flourishing towns...
Page 79 - Men are not wanting. What has failed us has been a decisive resolution and the consecutive execution of our plans. That which failed us after the shameful capitulation at Sedan was arms. All supplies of this nature had been sent on to Sedan, Metz, and Strasburg, as if, one would think, the authors of our disaster, by a last criminal combination, had desired, at their fall, to deprive us of all means of repairing our ruin.
Page 217 - Seine has not yet arrived, but, as far as our intelligence goes, the general outine of the facts is known. ^] You are authorized, in consequence, to say to Lord Granville that we sincerely regret that our troops, in order to avert immediate danger, were obliged to seize ships which belonged to British subjects. We admit their claim to indemnification, and shall pay to the owners...
Page 260 - We, William, by God's grace, King of Prussia, hereby announce that the German Princes and Free Towns having addressed to us a unanimous call to renew and undertake with the re-establishment of the German Empire the dignity of Emperor...