Identifier: storyofnineteent01broo (find matches)
Title: The story of the nineteenth century of the Christian era
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Nineteenth century. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston, Lothrop publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the war of 1812. This war of 1812, however, has been called by enthu-siasts the Second War of American Independence. Andin a certain sense it was. It freed American politics fromEuropean standards ; it made America American ; it drewher sons out of the selfish limits of their own homes, andmade them a united nation ; and as Dr. Edward Channingsays, it led not merely to American independence ofother nations, but to a breaking away from the hamperingconditions of colonial life. This acquaintanceship of the world was, indeed, one ofthe chief results of the long and cruel war-period thatclosed in 181 5. If Napoleon Bonaparte had done nothingelse, he had drawn the nations out of their old rivalries intoa gradual knowledge of each other, first for protection andthen for mutual advantage. The old barriers were brokendown ; men began to know their neighbors and to thinkfor themselves. In thus promoting the worlds brotherhoodNapoleon, called the Great, may be esteemed a greatpublic benefactor.
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o s- < ^ < ^ Q I < s CO .; CHAPTER V. HOW THE DESIRE FOR INDEPENDENCE GREW.(From i8ij to 1820.) WHEN William Makepeace Thackeray, an Englishboy, born in India, was on his way home toEngland, where he had been sent to school, as was thecustom with English boys born abroad, his ship, on theway across, stopped at the English island of St. Helena.There, as his black servant took him on a long walk overthe rocks and hills of that lonely South Atlantic isle, theysaw a short, stout man walking in a garden. The blackman stopped, and pointed out to the small English boy,the sight they had crossed the island to see. That is he, said the black servant to the British child ;that is Bonaparte ! He eats three sheep every day, andall the little children he can lay hands on. The small boy swallowed the story whole, and lookedwith horror at the Corsican ogre, as men called him.For young William Makepeace Thackery and his blackCalcutta servant were not the only ones who held thatlegendary opin

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