Identifier: historyofmediaev00davi (find matches)
Title: A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Davis, William Stearns, 1877-1930 McKendrick, Norman Shaw, 1876- jt. auth
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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alition,against Napoleon. England, Russia, Austria, Sweden, allbanded together to restore the Balance of Power inEurope, so sorely dislocated by this French colossus. Prussiakept sullenly neutral; Spain (feeble and decadent) was alliedwith France; nevertheless, the odds against Napoleon seemedheavy. The subsequent campaign, however, was to demon-strate that the Emperor of the French was no less formid-able than the General of the Republic. In one great quarter, however, Napoleon was to receivehumiliation. Since 1803, he had dreamed of invading England.If he once could land a few corps of his veterans on Britishsoil, he would have perfidious Albion upon her knees. To 1 Each side had charged the other with failing to observe the provisos of theTreaty of Amiens — and each side had been right. Between a jealous commer-cial nation like England, and a politician and warrior of the overweening ambi-tion of Napoleon, no real peace was, indeed, possible. One or the other mustneeds be ruined.
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w ft. BONAPARTE OVERTURNS THE OLD EUROPE 433 this end he had collected a great flotilla of flatboats in the Brit-ish Channel, to ferry across his army, some lucky day whenKing Georges fleet had been decoyed out to sea or had beenshattered in a great battle. That moment never came, and in1805, Napoleon was glad to divert the, Grand Army he hadassembled for England to the war in Austria. But his Frenchbattle-fleet, under the brave but not over-competent AdmiralVilleneuve, had joined the allied Spanish squadron; and thisunited force of thirty-three battleships on October 21, 1806,met twenty-seven English battleships off Cape Trafalgar, onthe coast of Spain. England expects every man to do hisduty! had been Nelsons last signal ere his flagship, theVictory, charged through the hostile line. Nelson perished,but not before his fleet had won a complete success. TwentyFrench and Spanish ships were taken or sunk. Never hadBritish seamanship and courage been better vindicated. Herwooden walls ma

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