The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1940 - Commonwealth countries |
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Unfortunately , before Jervis could retrieve the situation , the French , as we have seen , chased our allies to Savona and secured the chief portal of Italy . Thus , for reasons partly official , partly personal , the strategic ...
Unfortunately , before Jervis could retrieve the situation , the French , as we have seen , chased our allies to Savona and secured the chief portal of Italy . Thus , for reasons partly official , partly personal , the strategic ...
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Napoleon , however , had an honest and dominant desire to free the Italians , and he believed that until Italy was settled his own dynasty would never be secure . To give Sardinia the Adriatic for her frontier , moreover , would entitle ...
Napoleon , however , had an honest and dominant desire to free the Italians , and he believed that until Italy was settled his own dynasty would never be secure . To give Sardinia the Adriatic for her frontier , moreover , would entitle ...
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their way into Italy's predestined capital ( 20 Sept. 1870 ) . A few weeks later , just after the fall of Metz , the Czar Alexander II , in collusion with Bismarck , wiped out the " blot upon his reign ” by tearing up ( 31 Oct. 1870 ) ...
their way into Italy's predestined capital ( 20 Sept. 1870 ) . A few weeks later , just after the fall of Metz , the Czar Alexander II , in collusion with Bismarck , wiped out the " blot upon his reign ” by tearing up ( 31 Oct. 1870 ) ...
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Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
The Conflict with Revolutionary France 17931802 | 36 |
The Struggle with Napoleon 18031815 | 83 |
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