. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. e business depressions fromwhich they suffered they charged to Napoleon, and a strongparty arose in the empire which used every method ofshowing the czar that the unnatural alliance, as they calledthe agreement between Alexander and Napoleon, was un-popular. The czar could not refuse to listen to this , he feared that Napoleon was getting ready to restorePoland. He was offended by the haste with which his allyhad dismissed the idea of marriage with his sister and hadtaken up Marie Louise. He complained of the changes ofboundaries in Germany. Napoleon,
. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. e business depressions fromwhich they suffered they charged to Napoleon, and a strongparty arose in the empire which used every method ofshowing the czar that the unnatural alliance, as they calledthe agreement between Alexander and Napoleon, was un-popular. The czar could not refuse to listen to this , he feared that Napoleon was getting ready to restorePoland. He was offended by the haste with which his allyhad dismissed the idea of marriage with his sister and hadtaken up Marie Louise. He complained of the changes ofboundaries in Germany. Napoleon, on his part, saw withirritation that English goods were admitted into Russia. Heresented the failure of Alexander to join heartil) in the wide-sweeping application he had made of the Berlin and MilanDecrees, and to persecute neutral flags of all nations, even ofthose so far away from the Continent as the United remembered that Russia had not supported him loyallyin 1809. He was suspicious, too, of the good understand-. THE DUKE OF REICHSTADT. Engraved by W. Bromley, after Sir Thomas Lawrence. 236 TROUBLE WITH THE POPE 237 ing which seemed to be growmg- between Sweden, Russia,and England. During many months the two emperors remained in ahalf-hostile condition, but the strain finally became too was inevitable, and Napoleon set about preparing forthe struggle. During the latter months of 1811 and thefirst of 1812 his attention was given almost entirely to themilitary and diplomatic preparations necessary before be-ginning the Russian campaign. By the ist of May, 1812,he was ready to join his army, which he had centred atDresden. Accompanied by Marie Louise he arrived atDresden on the i6th of May, 1812, where he was greetedby the Emperor of Austria, the King of Prussia, and othersovereigns with whom he had formed alliances. The force Napoleon had brought to the field showedgraphically the extension and the character of the Franceof 1812. The army of twenty nati
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