Identifier: worldsleadingcon00beva (find matches)
Title: The world's leading conquerors: Alexander the Great, Caesar, Charles the Great, the Ottoman sultans, the Spanish conquistadors, Napoleon
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Bevan, Wilson Lloyd. (from old catalog)
Subjects: History Kings and rulers. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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horoughly done;there were grave and deplorable defects. Yet without ac-cepting at all the truth of the dictum that whatever is, isright, it can be said that no colonial possessions of otherpowers during the same century offered the same problemsas those confronted by Spain, and nowhere in NorthAmerica was the progress of extensive occupation and in-tensive civilization so definitely marked. The Spanish colonial empire has had the misfortune ofbeing exposed to much the same sort of depreciation as theByzantine Empire; in both cases investigation has dimin-ished the weight of conventional hostile criticism. Doc-trinaire theories of government, and unfounded social con-trasts, are apt to produce false standards. It is easy todetect faults in Spains management of her colonies, but itis not easy to reconstruct for her a policy that might haveproduced on Spanish soil the sturdy independence of theNew England town meeting, or the collective wisdom of thefounders of the American Constitution.
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Napoleon I. (From the portrait by P. Delaroche.) NAPOLEON EARLY YEARS Corsica, during a large part of the eighteenth century,had drawn upon itself the attention of Europe, on accountof its heroic struggle for independence. Its champion wasPasquale Paoli, whose character and patriotism provokedthe same sort of enthusiastic attention from his contem-poraries that centered upon Garibaldi loo years later. Thecause of the islanders against the city of Genoa, which exer-cised the right of overlordship over them, was so success-fully defended that had not the kingdom of France inter-fered as the ally of Genoa, the estabHshment of an inde-pendent Corsican republic would have been assured. Butunfortunately the Genoese surrendered the sovereignty ofthe island to France. The French occupied the harbors,the Corsicans were defeated in a pitched battle, and Paoliretired as a fugitive to England. All further resistance wasabandoned, and the island was annexed to France. In the Corsican deputation se

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