Official incidents are rarely of much account in history, and the greater ...
Official incidents are rarely of much account in history, and the greater part of what passes for diplomatic history is little more than the record of what one clerk said to another clerk. But it is allowable to speculate on what might have happened if the Queen had had her way, and Billy Morier, who knew Germany as Palmerston knew Europe, had been kept in Berlin from 1866 to 1870- But Bismarck was an astute man: our Ambassador, a stupid man: Hammond, the Permanent Under-secretary, a jealous man.
So Bismarck worked, unobserved, unsuspected; and in the June of 1870 Hammond could confidently assure Lord Granville that never had Europe been so profoundly at peace.
War was declared on July 1st.
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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 Rome by the
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.
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There was no reason, yet, to suppose they would wish to cross ...
There was no reason, yet, to suppose they would wish to cross it, but six months before there had been no reason to suppose they would fall on France.
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