BUT the Englishman, growing towards maturity in those years, felt himself no ...
BUT the Englishman, growing towards maturity in those years, felt himself no longer isolated, but involved in a world of accumulating and accelerating change. Swiftly, under the impulsion of Bismarck, the European pieces were setting to a new pattern.
The North German lands ranged themselves with Prussia.
To the south, Austria and Hungary had come together again over the body of their depressed and resentful Slays.
Italy, enriched by the cession of Venetia, had established her capital at Florence and her hands were closing on Papal Rome. The only barrier remaining between the old Europe-Congress Europe, the Europe of Canning and Palmerston-and the new, was the incalculable and untested stability of the French Empire.
...read on >>
Virtual Victorians History Website
On August 6 the armies of France and Germany met at Saarbruck. ...
On August 6 the armies of France and Germany met at Saarbruck. Napoleon III surrendered at Sedan on September 2. On September 20 the Italian army entered R
Feeling veered when the Empire had fallen, and France at bay began ...
Feeling veered when the Empire had fallen, and France at bay began to show her natural bravery, the victorious Prussian his native brutality.
Our public attitude, unruffled by the