. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. ven back across theplains of Lombardy to the line of the Mincio. The allies pursued them,and the advance divisions came together near the village of Solferino, whereon the 24th of June, 1859, the decisive battle of the war was fought. Onthe one side the allies were commanded by the Emperor of the French andthe King of Sardi
. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. ven back across theplains of Lombardy to the line of the Mincio. The allies pursued them,and the advance divisions came together near the village of Solferino, whereon the 24th of June, 1859, the decisive battle of the war was fought. Onthe one side the allies were commanded by the Emperor of the French andthe King of Sardinia. The Austrians were under command of the EmperorFrancis Joseph, and were defeated with a loss of about twenty thousandmen. Such was the severity of the fighting that the allied losses werenearly as great. Just afterward, while expectation was on tiptoe throughout Europe asto the next stage of the war, the two emperors, Austrian and French, met atVillafranca and concluded a treaty of peace the overtures of which weremade by Napoleon. That astute ruler perceived that should he press hisvantage further the whole Germanic confederation would probably riseagainst him. He therefore adroitly brought the war to an unexpected19 290 LIFE AM) TIMKS OK WILLIAM E. MINISTER OF FINANCE UNDER TALMERSTON. 291 close. An armistice was signed on the 8tli of July, and the treaty was pro-claimed just afterward. The principal features ol the settlement were asfollows: 1. The two sovereigns will favor the creation of an Italian confederation. 2. That confederation shall be under the honorary presidency of theholy father. 3. The Emperor of Austria cedes to the Emperor of the French hisrights over Lombardy, with the exception of the fortresses of Mantua andPeschiera, so that the frontier of the Austrian possessions shall start fromthe extreme rang^e of the fortress of Peschiera, and shall extend in a directline alonof the Mincio as far as Grazio ; thence to Scorzarolo and Luzana tothe Po
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