Our Chancellor: Sketches for a Historical Picture, Volume 2Macmillan and Company, 1884 - Germany |
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... proposals that Prussia should give up her Rhenish provinces in exchange for territory in the interior of Germany , and replies thereto : - " I will pay a thousand golden Fredericks down on the nail to any man who can prove that these ...
... proposals that Prussia should give up her Rhenish provinces in exchange for territory in the interior of Germany , and replies thereto : - " I will pay a thousand golden Fredericks down on the nail to any man who can prove that these ...
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... proposed to France an " eventual co - operation with England , by which material support should be afforded to Denmark in her resistance to ambition , " Napoleon declined the suggestion , and his refusal was thus explained in a I ...
... proposed to France an " eventual co - operation with England , by which material support should be afforded to Denmark in her resistance to ambition , " Napoleon declined the suggestion , and his refusal was thus explained in a I ...
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... gain Bismarck over to a compact that should prove profitable to France . Hints and proposals in this direction reached him even before he undertook the direction of the Prussian ΙΟ France and the Gastein Treaty . [ CHAP .
... gain Bismarck over to a compact that should prove profitable to France . Hints and proposals in this direction reached him even before he undertook the direction of the Prussian ΙΟ France and the Gastein Treaty . [ CHAP .
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... proposals were repeatedly made to me , sometimes by relatives of the French Emperor ( Prince Napoleon ) , sometimes ... proposal for an offensive and defensive treaty , the following bases of which remained in my hands : — “ 1. If the ...
... proposals were repeatedly made to me , sometimes by relatives of the French Emperor ( Prince Napoleon ) , sometimes ... proposal for an offensive and defensive treaty , the following bases of which remained in my hands : — “ 1. If the ...
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... proposals in May . It was then that France pledged herself to remain absolutely neutral , in the case of an Austro - Prussia war , and to do her best to keep the Italians from taking part in the struggle . On her part Austria promised ...
... proposals in May . It was then that France pledged herself to remain absolutely neutral , in the case of an Austro - Prussia war , and to do her best to keep the Italians from taking part in the struggle . On her part Austria promised ...
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