A short history of England, from the earliest times to the present day . moment when thisoccurred, the Prussians seized his main line of retreat. The con-sequence was that his army was completely dispersed, almost allhis baggage and artillery falling into the hands of the allies. Napoleon himself fled first to Paris and then to Eochefort, wherehe surrendered himself to the captain of an English Napoleonsman-of-war. By the common consent of Europe he fli& conveyed to the distant island of St. Helena, where he died in1821. After Napoleons flight, Louis XVIII. was againrestored, and the se
A short history of England, from the earliest times to the present day . moment when thisoccurred, the Prussians seized his main line of retreat. The con-sequence was that his army was completely dispersed, almost allhis baggage and artillery falling into the hands of the allies. Napoleon himself fled first to Paris and then to Eochefort, wherehe surrendered himself to the captain of an English Napoleonsman-of-war. By the common consent of Europe he fli& conveyed to the distant island of St. Helena, where he died in1821. After Napoleons flight, Louis XVIII. was againrestored, and the second treaty of Paris was this the fortresses of the northern frontier ofFrance were to be occupied by the allies for five years; a money The second treaty of Paris. 4o6 George IIL [1815. indemnity was to be paid; and all the works of art which Napoleonhad barbarously stolen from their owners were to be Prussians Fre7ich VKAXliJiLOO AT SEVEN While the allies were in Paris, the Emperors of Russia and AustriaThe Holy ^^^ the King of Prussia formed what was called theAUiance. Holy Alliance, which was nominally intended to bindthem to act together according to the principles of Christianity; inreality it was intended as a league to give mutual assistance for therepression of democratic doctrines. France and Spain subse-quently joined it, but Lord Castlereagh refused Englands consent. The formation of the Holy Alliance is very important, because it shows that these absolute sovereigns knew that, though they had crushed Napoleon, they had not put down the prin- Importance ^ • ,. , r. -, -, i • i of the Holy ciples of liberty and of equality before the law, whichlance. -j^^^ been the central ideas of the French RevolutionBesides the spread of those principles to every country in Europe, 1815.] Lord Liverpool. 407 there had also arisen through the French wars the idea of nationality
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