The Franco-Prussian War: Its Causes, Incidents, and Consequences, Volume 2W. Mackenzie, 1870 - Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 |
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... success in every war was to be more completely prepared for action than the enemy ; " a theory strikingly exemplified in the Prusso - Austrian war of 1866 , and still further verified by the French reverses during the late conflict ...
... success in every war was to be more completely prepared for action than the enemy ; " a theory strikingly exemplified in the Prusso - Austrian war of 1866 , and still further verified by the French reverses during the late conflict ...
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... success of the commander's plans ; but the Opposition contended that if there was only bad news it could not come too soon , since , until the country was made aware of the worst , it would not nerve itself for the sacrifices to which ...
... success of the commander's plans ; but the Opposition contended that if there was only bad news it could not come too soon , since , until the country was made aware of the worst , it would not nerve itself for the sacrifices to which ...
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... success . Pressed on both flanks , Marmont struck a bold blow for life rather than for victory . He threw himself in front of four battalions , formed in column , and pushed like a battering - ram straight at the Russian centre . Twelve ...
... success . Pressed on both flanks , Marmont struck a bold blow for life rather than for victory . He threw himself in front of four battalions , formed in column , and pushed like a battering - ram straight at the Russian centre . Twelve ...
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... Success was already attending the enemy's operations ; and after being puffed up with falsehoods regarding the exploits of their army , the Parisians were rudely awakened to the truth that their two greatest generals , with the flower ...
... Success was already attending the enemy's operations ; and after being puffed up with falsehoods regarding the exploits of their army , the Parisians were rudely awakened to the truth that their two greatest generals , with the flower ...
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... successes . A part of the Prussian army was driven into the Meuse ; but after a terrible fight our army was obliged to retreat either to Mézières or Sedan , and a few took refuge in Belgium . There is other serious news in circulation ...
... successes . A part of the Prussian army was driven into the Meuse ; but after a terrible fight our army was obliged to retreat either to Mézières or Sedan , and a few took refuge in Belgium . There is other serious news in circulation ...
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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...