Identifier: medievalmodernti01robi (find matches)
Title: Medieval and modern times; an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Robinson, James Harvey, 1863-1936
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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* H o o w o Europe and Napoleon 531 with an individual or a nation, and appears to have been abso-lutely without any sense of moral responsibility. Affection forhis friends and relatives never stood in the way of his personalaggrandizement. To these traits must be added unrivaled mili-tary genius and the power of intense and almost uninter-rupted work. But even Bonaparte, unexampled as were his abilities, could The politicalnever have extended his power over all of western Europe, had whichit not been for the peculiar political weakness of most of the Napoleonsstates with which he had to deal. There was no strong German wonderful successes empire in his day, no mighty Prussian army; Austria was possiblealready humbled, and its defeat had opened Italy to the French.In short, the French Republic was surrounded by small statesalmost defenseless against an unscrupulous invader. How Bonaparte made himself Master of France 107. After arranging the Peace of Campo-Formio, General NapoleonBona

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