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Title: The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Bénézet, Louis Paul, 1878- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Chicago, New York, Scott, Foresman and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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orsican Silesia, Pomerania, and East and West Prussia, ^akes and unmakes He reorganized the old PoHsh kingdom and kings called it the Grand Duchy of Warsaw. He forced Austria to give up all claim to northern Italy. He annexed to France the land which is now Belgium and Holland, and parts of western Germany and Italy. (See map entitled ^Europe in 1810.) All over Europe, those of the people who had education enough to understand what was going on, were astonished to see the old feudal kings and princes driven from their thrones and their places taken by men sprung from the common people. The father of the Bonapartes had been a poor lawyer. Murat, Napoleons brother-in-law, king of the Two Sicilies, was the son of an innkeeper. Bernadotte, one of Ryigj-s Napoleons generals, whom the Swedes chose ^^^^ *^®^ . . common as their king, was likewise descended from the people lower classes. In nations where the working classes had never dreamed of opposing the rulers there sprang up a new hope.
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THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON IN 1814 (122) ) The Map of Europe 123 Bonaparte at last made a fatal mistake, jj^g^^^^jWith an army of half a million men, he invaded blunderRussia, and established his headquarters inMoscow. The Russian people, however, set firethemselves to their beautiful city, and theFrench had to retreat a thousand miles throus^h J^^.,, ° terrible snow and ice, while bands of Russian Cossacks retreatswooped down on them from the rear and took ahundred thousand prisoners. Encouraged bythis terrible blow dealt the French, the alliedkings of Europe again united in one last effortto drive the little Corsican from the throne ofFrance. For two years Napoleon held them at bay,making up for his lack of soldiers by his marvel-ous military skill, and by the enthusiasm whichhe never failed to arouse in his troops. In 1814,however, surrounded by the troops of Austria,Prussia, Russia, and England, he had to confess by numbershimself beaten. Even Bernadotte, his formergeneral, led the Swe

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