Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . he foreign ambassadors inParis made their customary calls upon the emperor. Thelatter received the Austrian representative with his usualcourtesy, and in the course of the interview said: I re-gret that our relations with your government are not asgood as formerly, but I beg of you to tell the emperorthat my personal sentiments for him have not changed. These few words caused excitement in diplomatic cir-cles all over Europe. Austria and France pushed theirpreparations for war, and the Emperor of Austria r
Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . he foreign ambassadors inParis made their customary calls upon the emperor. Thelatter received the Austrian representative with his usualcourtesy, and in the course of the interview said: I re-gret that our relations with your government are not asgood as formerly, but I beg of you to tell the emperorthat my personal sentiments for him have not changed. These few words caused excitement in diplomatic cir-cles all over Europe. Austria and France pushed theirpreparations for war, and the Emperor of Austria repliedto Louis Napoleon in much the same terms that the lat-ter had used on New Years Day when speaking to theAustrian ambassador. On the 30th of January PrinceNapoleon was married to Princess Clothilde of Sardinia,and immediately thereafter the Austrian armies in Italywere increased, and the banks of the Ticino, the boun-dary between Sardinia and the Italian provinceb of Aus-tria, were fortified. In March and April Sardinia andFrance prepared for war ; Russia sought to intervene and. 199 200 DECISIVE BATTLES SINCE WATERLOO. proposed a Congress, but there were disputes regardingthe admission of Sardinia and nothing came of the pro-posal. On the 23d April, Austria demanded that withinthree days Sardinia should disarm, and dismiss the volun-teers from other States; Sardinia refused on the 26th,and on the same day the Austrians crossed the French troops which, had been massing on the fron-tier entered Piedmont on the 27th April, and on the 8thof May Napoleon III. made formal declaration of war,announcing his purpose to be nothing more than the ex-pulsion of the Austrians from Italy. For some two or three weeks there were no actual hos-tilities, the Austrians being occupied with plundering thepart of Italy they had entered, and the French usingevery exertion to bring up their troops and make readyfor battle. The Austrian left wing was defeated nearMontebello on the 20th
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