. The story of the nineteenth century of the Christian era. se and brutal, and all the world de-manded not only peace, but reform. The time for both these blessings was not yet , it needed still wider and more wasting wars toawaken good men to see the needs of their brethren, andfind a way to meet them ; for war, after all, is what hasbrought the nations closer to each other than ever has ado-nothing peace, and war was to come with a vengeance. For when, by Nelsons victory at Trafalgar in October,1805, the emperor of the French was forced to give upforever his dream of the conquest
. The story of the nineteenth century of the Christian era. se and brutal, and all the world de-manded not only peace, but reform. The time for both these blessings was not yet , it needed still wider and more wasting wars toawaken good men to see the needs of their brethren, andfind a way to meet them ; for war, after all, is what hasbrought the nations closer to each other than ever has ado-nothing peace, and war was to come with a vengeance. For when, by Nelsons victory at Trafalgar in October,1805, the emperor of the French was forced to give upforever his dream of the conquest of England, and to yieldhis supremacy on the sea, he turned all his masterlygenius, and all his terrible powers of concentration, againsthis enemies on land. At the head of a vast army ofFrenchmen and their allies, he hurled himself on the greatwall of armed men which Russia and Austria, with themoney help of England, had raised up against him, and sethimself to break, scatter, and destroy what is now knownin history as the third coalition against ^ < mm oX z o -^ < /c I CHAPTER III. THE GRIP OF THE MAN ON HORSEBACK.(From 1803 to 1810.) T was literally to hurl himself against the forces ofRussia and Austria, that Napoleon, emperor and sol-dier, marched across the French border in 1805. With a rapidity that was startling and a strategy thatwas baffling, he flung the veterans who followed his eagles,first against one power, and then against another. Austria,torn and crippled by his fierce assault, went down in de-feat at Ulm ; and Russia, confronted by this wonderfulsoldier, in what is known as the battle of the ThreeEmperors at Austerlitz, fled from the field in retreat,while, through the clouds, there burst upon the exultantFrenchmen that stream of light forever famous as theSun of Austerlitz. That sun shone full upon Napoleon with a blaze of displayed him as the foremost man of all the world, and,for a season, all the world bent in acknowledgment or sub
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