Historic Doubts Relative To Napoleon Buonaparte eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 61 pages of information about Historic Doubts Relative To Napoleon Buonaparte.

Historic Doubts Relative To Napoleon Buonaparte eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 61 pages of information about Historic Doubts Relative To Napoleon Buonaparte.
was a Frenchman, warred against Napoleon.  So they went forth, and fought against the French in the plain of Leipsic.  And the French were discomfited before their enemies, and fled, and came to the rivers which are behind Leipsic, and essayed to pass over, that they might escape out of the hand of their enemies; but they could not, for Napoleon had broken down the bridges:  so the people of the north countries came upon them, and smote them with a very grievous slaughter.” ...

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“Then the ruler of Austria and all the rulers of the north countries sent messengers unto Napoleon to speak peaceably unto him, saying, Why should there be war between us any more?  Now Napoleon had put away his wife, and taken the daughter of the ruler of Austria to wife.  So all the counsellors of Napoleon came and stood before him, and said, Behold now these kings are merciful kings; do even as they say unto thee; knowest thou not yet that France is destroyed?  But he spake roughly unto his counsellors, and drave them, out from his presence, neither would he hearken unto their voice.  And when all the kings saw that, they warred against France, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and came near to Paris, which is the royal city, to take it:  so the men of Paris went out, and delivered up the city to them.  Then those kings spake kindly unto the men of Paris, saying, Be of good cheer, there shall no harm happen unto you.  Then were the men of Paris glad, and said, Napoleon is a tyrant; he shall no more rule over us.  Also all the princes, the judges, the counsellors, and the captains whom Napoleon had raised up even from the lowest of the people, sent unto Lewis the brother of King Lewis, whom they had slain, and made him king over France.” ...

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“And when Napoleon saw that the kingdom was departed from him, he said unto the rulers which came against him, Let me, I pray you, give the kingdom unto my son:  but they would not hearken unto him.  Then he spake yet again, saying, Let me, I pray you, go and live in the island of Elba, which is over against Italy, nigh unto the coast of France; and ye shall give me an allowance for me and my household, and the land of Elba also for a possession.  So they made him ruler of Elba."...

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“In those days the Pope returned unto his own land.  Now the French, and divers other nations of Europe, are servants of the Pope, and hold him in reverence; but he is an abomination unto the Britons, and to the Prussians, and to the Russians, and to the Swedes.  Howbeit the French had taken away all his lands, and robbed him of all that he had, and carried him away captive into France.  But when the Britons, and the Prussians, and the Russians, and the Swedes, and the rest of the nations that were confederate against France, came thither, they caused the French to set the Pope at liberty, and to restore all his goods that they had taken; likewise they gave him back all his possessions; and he went home in peace, and ruled over his own city as in times past."...

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