Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Primeated by a man named Bellingham. Lord Liverpool became ^i^ Minister, with Castlereagh as Foreign Secretary, theother ministers remaining in office. Wellington was heartilysupported, and a war with America caused by the Orders inCouncil, ended after a series of struggles on land and on sea—in which success and failure were pretty evenly balanced 7U ENGLANDS STRUGGLE FOB EXISTENCE. Welling-tonsVic
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Primeated by a man named Bellingham. Lord Liverpool became ^i^ Minister, with Castlereagh as Foreign Secretary, theother ministers remaining in office. Wellington was heartilysupported, and a war with America caused by the Orders inCouncil, ended after a series of struggles on land and on sea—in which success and failure were pretty evenly balanced 7U ENGLANDS STRUGGLE FOB EXISTENCE. Welling-tonsVictories. Over- tlirow ofNapoleon. [1802 siirned on December 24th, •—in the Convention of Ghent,1814. In 1S12, Wellington, having taken Cindad Rodrigo andBada,jos, won Salamanca and entered Madrid on August to retreat to Portugal by the overwhelming French forces,he again advanced in 1813, won the battle of Vittoria on June 21st,and the battle of the Pyrenees, Soult in the following Januaryevacuating Bayonne. In October Napoleon, having lost thebattle of Leipzig, had fallen back across the Rhine. The alliesentered France, and in January, 1814, Wellington forced the. BRASS CANXOX CAPTIKED AT .MALTA, 1800.(Tourer of London.) passage ot the Bidassoa, defeated Soult at Orthcz in February,and at Toulouse in April. After a brilliant campaign against theRussians, Austrians, and Prussians, Napoleon was forced toabdicate, and earl}- in April the Avar came to a conclusion. LouisXVIIL Avas restored, and at the Congress of Vienna Europe wasreconstructed. During the Congress Napoleon escaped fromElba in March, 1815, and it was not till June 18th that the battleof Waterloo overthreAv his hopes and led to the second restora-tion of Louis XVIIL on terms arranged under the influence ofEngland. In the settlement at Vienna of the various problemswhich had arisen during the struggle against Napoleon, LordCastlereasrh and the Duke of Wellinofton exercised considerableinfluence; Engl
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