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 .. . stinction of rounding out the nineteenth and introducing thetwentieth century. Warriors. — Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I.), soldier, statesman, and EPOCH-MAKERS OF THE CENTURY 699 Emperor of the French (b. August 15, 1769 ; d. May 5, 1821), was the greatestof the worlds masters in the art of war
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 .. . stinction of rounding out the nineteenth and introducing thetwentieth century. Warriors. — Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I.), soldier, statesman, and EPOCH-MAKERS OF THE CENTURY 699 Emperor of the French (b. August 15, 1769 ; d. May 5, 1821), was the greatestof the worlds masters in the art of war. His numerous campaigns, con-ducted with a brilliancy never before equaled, had for their object thehumiliation of the countries of Europe, and the establishment of an imperialpolicy in which France should be supreme. This he came very near to effect-ing, in spite of closely combined and persistent opposition. None of the fre-quent coalitions formed to thwart his ambitions and stay his martial progressproved absolutely effective till that of March 25, 1815, was formed, whichput an army of 700,000 men in the field against him. It was a part of thisarmy that he met at Waterloo, June 18, 1815, where defeat awaited him, to-gether with the eclipse of his gigantic influence and phenomenal GRANTS TOMB. RIVERSIDE DRIVE. NEW YOKE CITY. Ulysses Simpson Grant (b. April 27, 1822; d. July 23, 1885), graduated atWest Point and had a brief military experience in the Mexican war. Onthe breaking out of the Civil War he reentered the Federal service fromcivil life, and by exceptional fertility of resource achieved a series of victo-ries in the West which led to his command of all the Union forces, with thespecially conferred title of lieutenant-general, a title subsequently raised tothat of general. By the brilliant, persistent, and simultaneous campaigns hecarried through in the East and West, he further clinched his title as one ofthe worlds greatest generals, and ended the conflic
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