This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...Grand Duchy of Warsaw, placing a vassal of Napoleon upon the Vistula, and giving the Poles a phantom of hope; and Russia and Prussia both recognised all the new creations of the Napoleonic Empire, including Joseph's right to Naples, and even to Sicily. The subjugation of the West, confirmed by the Czar, seemed thus ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...Grand Duchy of Warsaw, placing a vassal of Napoleon upon the Vistula, and giving the Poles a phantom of hope; and Russia and Prussia both recognised all the new creations of the Napoleonic Empire, including Joseph's right to Naples, and even to Sicily. The subjugation of the West, confirmed by the Czar, seemed thus completely assured; yet this was but a small part of the arrangements of Tilsit. In this, as in all instances, England was the great mark of Napoleon's hostile efforts; and he found Alexander, indignant at recent British policy, a willing co-operator in a colossal scheme to strike mortal blows at the British Empire. Russia was rigorously to carry out the Continental System a Chinese wall was to be raised along every coast, from Archangel to Trieste, against British commerce; and should England refuse a mediation, which was to be a mere pretence, every navy of the Continent was to be combined against her, and to endeavour to destroy her rule on the seas. Nor was this all; an invasion of India was, not improbably, discussed at Tilsit; and Napoleon was perhaps given a free hand to subjugate Portugal, and even Spain, in order to close the peninsula to British trade. In return for these immense concessions, a vast prospect was opened to Russian ambition. Alexander was encouraged to annex Finland, then a province of Sweden, an old ally of France; a revolution in Turkey gave Napoleon an opportunity to break his engagements with the Porte, and to plan an eventual partition of the Turkish Empire. The Czar, it is believed, was to obtain the region north of the Danube; France was to have Greece, Thessaly, Albania, and perhaps Egypt; and Austria was to be offered the great tract on her eastern frontier. All this, however, was in the future only; the jealousy...
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