. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. here was a clash betweenGerman rulers and French subjectsin these annexed provinces ; inevit-ably the -s^Tongs and bitterness of thesubjugated France of Lorraine echoedin Paris and kept alive the passion-ate resentment of the French. . The natural map had alreadysecured j)olitical recognition in theAustrian Empire after Sadowa (1866).Hungary, which had been subordin-ated to Austria, was erected into akingdom on an equal footing withAustria, and the Empire of Austriahad become the dual monarchyof Austria-Hungary. But in theso
. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. here was a clash betweenGerman rulers and French subjectsin these annexed provinces ; inevit-ably the -s^Tongs and bitterness of thesubjugated France of Lorraine echoedin Paris and kept alive the passion-ate resentment of the French. . The natural map had alreadysecured j)olitical recognition in theAustrian Empire after Sadowa (1866).Hungary, which had been subordin-ated to Austria, was erected into akingdom on an equal footing withAustria, and the Empire of Austriahad become the dual monarchyof Austria-Hungary. But in thesouth-east of this empire, and overthe Turkish empire, the boundariesand subjugations of the conquestperiod still remained. A fresh upthrust of the naturalmap began in 1875, when theChristian races in the Balkans, andparticularly the Bulgarians, becamerestless and insurgent. The Turksadopted violent repressive measures,and embarked upon massacres ofBulgarians on an enormous Russia intervened (1877), and to revise the treaty of San Stefano, chiefly. « hyRumaida. xussia. V//////, New PrmapyafBuImria., &axitoTUjinous pravincz Proposed BigBulgarunifraimer c£ Ireafy of Sen. after a year of costly warfare obligedthe Turks to sign the treaty of SanStefano, which was, on the whole, asensible treaty, breaking up the artificialTurkish Empire, and to a large extentestablishing the natural map. But it hadbecome the tradition of British policy tothwart the designs of Russia —heavenloiows why !—whenever Russia appeared tohave a design, and the British foreign office,under the premiership of Lord Beaconsfield,intervened with a threat of war if a consider-able restoration of the Turks facilities forexaction, persecution, and massacre was notmade. For a time war seemed very prob- in the interests of the Turkish and Austrianmonarchies, the British acquired the islandof Cyprus, to which they had no sort of rightwhatever, and which has never been of theslighte
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