. European history : an outline of its development. Disap-pointed ofallies. Deceived inregard to herownresources. NapoleonIII. and his 474 Europe since 1815 [§ 490 armies surrender. Miiller, Recent Times, 426-440. The republicproclaimedin 4, 1870. rendered to the enemy. MacMahon was beaten in the greatbattle of Worth, and later his reorganized armywas compelled to surrender at Sedan, wherealso the Emperor Napoleon, who had beenpresent at the battle, sent his sword tohis brother King William. Ba-zaine with the other great armyf^ ^s^ held out for a few weeks longer in the fortress of
. European history : an outline of its development. Disap-pointed ofallies. Deceived inregard to herownresources. NapoleonIII. and his 474 Europe since 1815 [§ 490 armies surrender. Miiller, Recent Times, 426-440. The republicproclaimedin 4, 1870. rendered to the enemy. MacMahon was beaten in the greatbattle of Worth, and later his reorganized armywas compelled to surrender at Sedan, wherealso the Emperor Napoleon, who had beenpresent at the battle, sent his sword tohis brother King William. Ba-zaine with the other great armyf^ ^s^ held out for a few weeks longer in the fortress of Metz, andthen surrendered also. In Paris on the newsSedan the repub- lic had been pro-claimed and a pro-visional govern-ment of nationaldefence had beenorganized, x^fteran attempt to ne-gotiate with Bis-marck, the newgovernment,which refused topay the price ofthe cession of Al-sace and Lorrainewhich was de-m a n d e d forpeace, deter-mined to go onwith the war. Be-fore the end ofSeptember, hardlymore than sixweeks after thefirst fighting, Paris. Germania Niederwald Monument was completely surrounded by the German hnes. §§ 491? 49-] Alsace-Lorraine and Rome 475 The city made a brave defence. It endured a bombard-ment of three weeks, and attempted in a desperate sortie tobreak the siege Hnes. Outside the city also the efforts of theprovisional government had no better result. Their armiesin the various provinces all met with defeat. Finally furtherresistance became hopeless, and an armistice was agreedupon at the end of January, 1871. A national assembly waselected which met in Bordeaux to arrange the terms ofpeace. France was obliged now to accede to Bismarcksdemand and give up Alsace and Lorraine, to pay a largewar indemnity, and to allow the German troops to hold apart of France until it was paid. 491. The Empire of Germany. — In demanding the ces-sion of these provinces, Bismarck was hardly true to theprinciple of nationality to which he owed so much. Forthat principle
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