Identifier: historyofallnati17wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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- to resign her claim to thatcotintrv for an indemnification inGerman territory, — Mecklenburg, Pomerania, and also even Ham-burg and Lübeck. To the injury of Hamburg, but to the advantage ofGermany, King Frederick X\. did not accede to the transaction, andfinally imagined it a better and safer course to reniain in alliance withNapoleon. When it now followed that Norwaj must be takenforcibly by the Swedes, great was IJeinadottes dissatisfaction thatAlexander was unable to furnish the pi-omised assistance. In hisanger he warned the king of Prussia never to intrust his assembledtroops to a Russian commander-in-chief. Stein, indeed, had alwaysdeprecated the acceptance of Sweden into the alliance, saying that the 264 THE )VAE OF LIBEIIATIOX OF ISIS.
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Fiti. 52. — Bernadotte. From a copper-plate engraving by P. M. Alix ; originalpainting by Hilaire le Uru. PRUSSIAN NEGOTIATIONS WITH ENGLAND. 265 Swedish nation was a soap-bubble and acted like one. The uprightsness of King Frederick William was opposed to the robbing of Den-mark no less than to sacrificing to Denmark German territory; but heerroneously thought that the assistance of a marshal of the Na-poleonic school, and of so distinguished a commander as Bernadotte,was indispensable in order to overcome Napoleon. In a treaty con-cluded on April 22, Prussia engaged to add 27,000 men to the activeforce which tlie crown-prince should command in Germany, andEngland granted to him for his partieijiation in the war a subsidyof one million pounds. But the negotiations of Hardenberg with England were con-tinued unprotitably in many respects. The chief adversary to beencountered was Count Münster, minister of the former electorate ofHanover, then loitering in London, who, with the utter

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