A History of the English-speaking Peoples: The age of revolutionCassell, 1956 - English-speaking countries |
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... Europe , so long subservient to France , joined the Russian thrust . A series of gigantic engagements were fought in Saxony and Silesia . At last in the three - day battle of Leipzig in October all Napoleon's foes closed in upon him ...
... Europe , so long subservient to France , joined the Russian thrust . A series of gigantic engagements were fought in Saxony and Silesia . At last in the three - day battle of Leipzig in October all Napoleon's foes closed in upon him ...
Page 310
... Europe . The settlement of 1920 created new republics , redistributed frontiers , accepted the dissolution of the old Austrian Empire , and built up a Europe on that principle of self - determina- tion which had been preached by the ...
... Europe . The settlement of 1920 created new republics , redistributed frontiers , accepted the dissolution of the old Austrian Empire , and built up a Europe on that principle of self - determina- tion which had been preached by the ...
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... Europe paid for the overthrow of Napoleon . Even the principle of legitimacy was discarded when it clashed with the ... Europe . Ideals of liberty and nationalism , born in Paris , had been imparted to all the European peoples . In the ...
... Europe paid for the overthrow of Napoleon . Even the principle of legitimacy was discarded when it clashed with the ... Europe . Ideals of liberty and nationalism , born in Paris , had been imparted to all the European peoples . In the ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I WILLIAM OF ORANGE | 3 |
CONTINENTAL WAR | 13 |
THE SPANISH SUCCESSION | 23 |
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