The Revelation Explained eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 446 pages of information about The Revelation Explained.

The Revelation Explained eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 446 pages of information about The Revelation Explained.
sun, for his empire extended over the whole.  It finally became a saying that “if Napoleon’s cocked hat and gray coat should be raised on the cliffs of Boulogne, all Europe would run to arms.”  This agrees with the statement of the historian Judson, concerning the monarchs of Europe, that “the mere name of Napoleon was a dread to them.”  None of them could stand before his terrible onset.  “Europe was shaken from end to end by such armies as the world had not seen since the days of Xerxes.  Napoleon, whose hands were upheld by a score of distinguished marshals, performed the miracles of genius.  His brilliant achievements still dazzle, while they amaze, the world.”  The crowns and scepters of Europe he held as play-things in his hand, to dispose of at pleasure.  Says Wickes:  “Never in the history of Christendom were ancient dynasties overthrown, and new ones created, kings made and unmade, within so short a period, as during the unparallelled career of this great conqueror.  He had the crowns and kingdoms of all Europe in his gift, to settle as he pleased, or bestow as presents upon his relatives and friends.  To his brother Jerome he gave the crown of Westphalia; to his brother Louis, the crown of Holland; to his brother Joseph, the kingdom of Spain; to his brother-in-law and general Murat, the kingdom of Naples; and others he conferred upon his favorite marshals.”

When he invaded Russia, a territory outside of the Apocalyptic earth, he exceeded his mission, and there met with the most terrible overthrow.  Although he entered that kingdom with the most magnificent army that he had ever gathered together, yet for suffering and disaster that famous retreat from burning Moscow stands without a parallel in history.  It was not the Russian armies that prevailed against him; it was God that fought against him with the blasts of his north wind.  These speedily silenced those tremendous parks of artillery that had thundered upon the fields of Jena, Friedland, Wagram, Marengo and Austerlitz, and scattered those invincible battalions that had marched triumphant over Europe.  Ney, at the head of the National Guards, ever before victorious, was compelled to beat a hasty retreat, glad to escape with the smallest remnant of his host.  Napoleon failed here because God had given him no mission to perform in that territory.

Concerning his ambition, the Encyclopaedia Britannica says:  “With a frame of iron, Napoleon could endure any hardships; and in war, in artillery especially and engineering, he stands unrivalled in the world’s history....  He could not rest, and knew not when he had achieved success....  He succeeded in alienating the peoples of Europe, in whose behalf he pretended to be acting.  And when they learned by bitter experience that he had absolutely no love for liberty, and encouraged equality only so long as it was an equality of subjects under his rule, they soon began to war against what was in fact a world-destroying military despotism.”  He was inspired with

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