A short history of England . ed in militaryservice in India. He proved to beEnglands greatest general and in reward for his efforts was made duke ofWellington. These efforts were ulti-mately crowned with success and theFrench were finally driven out of Portugal and Spain. By this time the tide of success was turning against Napoleonin other directions also. The great army which he led into Russiain an attack on the Czar in 1812 was annihilated by the terribleweather, the long marches, and the slow starvation; and anotherarmy which he gathered in 1813 was crushed by the allies in Ger-many. He w
A short history of England . ed in militaryservice in India. He proved to beEnglands greatest general and in reward for his efforts was made duke ofWellington. These efforts were ulti-mately crowned with success and theFrench were finally driven out of Portugal and Spain. By this time the tide of success was turning against Napoleonin other directions also. The great army which he led into Russiain an attack on the Czar in 1812 was annihilated by the terribleweather, the long marches, and the slow starvation; and anotherarmy which he gathered in 1813 was crushed by the allies in Ger-many. He was deposed in 1814 and banished to the island ofElba, and Louis XVIII was made king of France. A few monthsafterwards Napoleon escaped, returned to France, was acceptedagain as emperor, and organized another army. But his effortswere in vain. He succumbed to the united forces of Europe, andin the great battle of Waterloo, fought in June, 1815, under the com-mand of Wellington, was finally and decisively defeated by an allied. The Duke of Wellington AMERICAN AND FRENCH REVOLUTIONS 615 army of English and Prussians. The long wars had at last come toan end. A series of treaties was entered into at Vienna in 1814and 1815 by England, France, and the other European countries. 556. Summary of the Period 1763-1815.—The period offifty-two years which intervened between 1763 and 1815 sawa profound transformation in England. The improvements inmanufacturing, agriculture, and transportation began a seriesof changes which deeply affected all classes of society. Theold settled ways could no longer be retained. New classes ofemployers and new classes of employees grew up, with differ-ent ways of thinking and acting. All parts of the country werebrought within easy reach of one another, and when the railroadand the telegraph were introduced a generation or two later theyonly made more complete the changes which were already begun. The struggle with the American colonies not only led to thelo
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