Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . e moment was at hand, and that his only hope was to crush Wel-lington before Bluchers advancing columns could be thrown into line of sent forward his magnificent Imperial Guard. They charged with chivalricsplendor, fought with heroic desperation, were repulsed, — and the star ofNapoleon
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . e moment was at hand, and that his only hope was to crush Wel-lington before Bluchers advancing columns could be thrown into line of sent forward his magnificent Imperial Guard. They charged with chivalricsplendor, fought with heroic desperation, were repulsed, — and the star ofNapoleon set to rise no more. Finding his cause irretrievably lost, leaving the remnant of his army incommand of Marshal Soult, Napoleon fled and. failing to find a passage toAmerica, surrendered. This battle, magnificent in its results, ensured toEngland a long peace, and raised her to the first rank, for military prowess,among the nations of the world. Napoleons skill at Waterloo was up to the highest standard of his mostglorious work; but he was overwhelmed by preponderance in entire force with which he conducted this campaign was barely 104,000,while the combined armies of Wellington and Blucher numbered 220,00(1. The Congress of Vienna restored the ancien regime, replacing dethroned. 406 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX™ CENTURY monarchs upon their hereditary domains, but the parceling out of the smallerterritories showed the Powers to be quite as arbitrary as Napoleon semi-decade of passive submission to the policies of princes wasbroken in 1820 by general revolts in Europe. Spanish-American colonies,indignant at French interference in Spanish matters, began their strugglesfor independence. Greek War for Independence. — Since the capture of Constantinopleby the Turks, in 1453, Greece had been subject to Turkey. Out of the de-feats of several rebellions against the greed, tyranny, and brutality of theMoslem, — particularly from the revolutions of 177
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