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Identifier: briefhistoryofna01fish (find matches)
Title: A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Fisher, George Park, 1827-1909
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati (etc.) American book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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austing themilitary resources of France. He, nevertheless, showed a pre-sumptuous confidence and an arrogant spirit of domination.He undertook to cut off trade between the entire Continentand England. This measure inflicted serious injury on France,and all the countries which profited by English trade. Invasion of Spain At Tilsit, the Czar Alexander had promised to declare war against Great Britain. He accord-ingly did so, and Napoleon, thereupon, invaded the Spanishpeninsula under the pretense of guarding the coast against theEnglish. He declared that the ruling house of Braganza hadceased to reign, and gave the crown of Spain to his brotherJoseph, bestowing the throne of Naples on his marshal Murat.From Spain he hurried to Austria, where signs of an uprisinghad manifested themselves, and gained a signal victory atWagram, which compelled Austria to cede more of her terri-tory. Pius VII. having refused to close his ports againstEngland, Napoleon annexed the Papal States to the Empire,
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REACTION AGAINST NAPOLEON 489 arrested the Pontiff, and conveyed him to France. The Em-peror, being chiklless, obtained a divorce from Josephine, andmarried Maria Louisa, the daughter of Francis I. of Austria,in the hope of founding a dynasty on a sure basis. To the son,who was born of this marriage, he gave the sounding title ofKing of Eome. Reaction against Napoleon. — In Spain, during Napoleonsabsence, Wellington in command of the English army gainedmany advantages over Massena, who tried in vain to captureWellingtons fortified position. This campaign produced astrong moral effect in other parts of Europe. A new spiritof patriotism was stirring the hearts of the German people.Stein, a great patriotic minister, reorganized the Prussian ad-ministration and reconstructed the army. The quarrel ofNapoleon with the Pope, and the indignities suffered by thePontiff, added to the discontent which the Emperors commer-cial policy provoked. A new Germany was slowly waking tolife, and collect

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