Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . NationalDefense found that it could count uponscarcely sixty thousand of all branches,most of them brought back by General EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. 301 Vinoy from the neighborhood of there Avere the three hundied andfifty or three
Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . NationalDefense found that it could count uponscarcely sixty thousand of all branches,most of them brought back by General EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. 301 Vinoy from the neighborhood of there Avere the three hundied andfifty or three hundred and sixty thousandNational Guards, and to thein it wasthought, despite the fears that the^miglit undertake an insurrection ofcommunistic character, necessary toconfide the defense of tlie fortifica-tions. But this was not all. The men werefound ; the guards of the rami)arts werefound ; but each bastion ought for safety find a garrison, well controlled, wellequipped, and full of fight. The astonishing energy of our northerntowns in our civil war was more thanparalleled; it was fairly outdone by thegigantic and swift efforts of the Repub-lican government in Paris to build up thematerial for defense. The committee organized a corps offrom sixty to seventy thousand men,soldiers or artisans of the better class,whose special duty was to make the. CAMP OF THE FRENCH MARINES AT ST. VITRY. to be armed with seven pieces of ought, in short, to have two greatparks of artillery, each with two hundredand fifty cannon, in its reserve ; but theEmpire had left it next to were in the magazines neithershells nor the elements n(!cessary tomanufacture them. There were onlya])out two million pounds of powder, orscarcely ten rounds apiece, to the cannonwliicli Palis would have to possess if itmade a respectal)le defense. In some<jf the forts tliere was only a guardian towatch over the material, where ilwKe[)ul)lican had expected to cannon, the powde
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