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If they had done so they would have found that both in the Napoleonic and the Crimean wars we paid for nearly half the cost of the war out of revenue as they went on, whereas in the present war the proportion that we are paying by taxation, instead of being 47 per cent., as it was when our sturdy ancestors fought against Napoleon, is less than 20 per cent. Why has this been so?
It is an obvious criticism that if human nature had been as good as such writers imagined, these corrupt and corrupting influences could never have grown up, or at least could never have obtained a controlling influence, and this philosophy became greatly discredited when the French Revolution, which it did so much to produce, ended in the unspeakable horrors of the Reign of Terror and in the gigantic carnage of the Napoleonic wars.
Again we have been told that the war was simply a war of autocracy against democracy, of mediævalism against modern life, of progress against stagnation, of militarism and war against peace, of the Napoleonic against the Christian spirit. Occasionally we hear more personal and subjective notes.
Relatively to the forces engaged, Albuera and Möckern are the bloodiest battles of the Napoleonic wars. On the whole, Napoleon had dealt the allies heavier losses than he had sustained. But they could replace them.
Relatively to the forces engaged, Albuera and Möckern are the bloodiest battles of the Napoleonic wars. On the whole, Napoleon had dealt the allies heavier losses than he had sustained. But they could replace them.
They did for the American volunteers what Rouget de Lisle's immortal song did for the French levies in the revolutionary wars, what Körner's martial ballads did for the German patriots in the Napoleonic wars. These superb pages of exhortation were read in every camp to the disheartened men; their courage commanded victory.
"I guess you giddim. I guess mebbe you lige him, hey! He iss a awful glutton to eat!" Napoleon! And in the street car the first headline he saw in his morning paper was, "Young Napoleon of Finance Flutters Wall Street!" The thing was getting uncanny. A Napoleon of Finance! Something, Napoleonic at least for Bunker Bean, had to be done in finance immediately. He had reached the office penniless.
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, the year of the invention of Crompton's mule, and in the decade when enclosures were more rapid than at any other time, except in the middle years of the Napoleonic wars.
They made a third attempt by means of Baudin's expedition, during the Napoleonic Consulate, and again were unsuccessful, except in a very small measure. It almost seems as if some power behind human endeavours had intended these coasts for British finding and keeping. The full story of Dentrecasteaux' expedition has not yet been told.
"Some geometrical stunt, maybe; triangulation, or " "Why, sure! That's just it!" exploded Bill. "I know how we can get him: Parallax! Shucks, it'll be easy! Just leave it to me." "Looks as though some kind of Napoleonic strategy were going to be pulled off," asserted Professor Gray, laughing. "But, boys, keep in mind that Mr.
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