. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . CHAPTER I. CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH LED TO THE UROPE might be said to have? been, at the beginning of 1853, ini a state of profound peace. Therevolutionary agitations of 1848and 1849 had ended in a reactionwhich left the old governments at case,and had fixed Louis Napoleon as Emperorof France. England, advancing underfavour of free-trade and the developmentof her colonial gold-fields in a career ofunexampled prosperity, had no seriousapprehension of war, and was, on her own part,little pre
. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . CHAPTER I. CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH LED TO THE UROPE might be said to have? been, at the beginning of 1853, ini a state of profound peace. Therevolutionary agitations of 1848and 1849 had ended in a reactionwhich left the old governments at case,and had fixed Louis Napoleon as Emperorof France. England, advancing underfavour of free-trade and the developmentof her colonial gold-fields in a career ofunexampled prosperity, had no seriousapprehension of war, and was, on her own part,little prepared for such an event. Yet at this time, a series of comparatively obscure transactionswas in progress in a remote part of Europe, whichwas soon to involve us in a contest of the mostsanguinary character. TRADITIONARY AGGRESSIVE POLICY OPRUSSIA. If we survey the history of Europe from thecommencement of the last century, and set asidefrom it the career of revolutionised France between1792 and 1815, we shall be struck by nothing so CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH LED TO THE WAR, much as the progress made during that time byRussia, in extent of territory a
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