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Page 419 - Venetia ; but it was impossible to pursue these advantages when the capital itself was on the point of falling into the hands of the enemy. The invading armies halted, and ere long the Archduke John commenced his retreat into the mountains. In Northern Germany no popular uprising could be expected when once Austria had been defeated. The only movements that took place were undertaken by soldiers, and undertaken before the disasters in Bavaria be- Attempt* of came known.
Page 172 - Alongside came my honoured friends : the scene in the boat was terribly affecting ; up flew her Ladyship, and exclaiming, ' O God, is it possible ?' she fell into my arm more dead than alive.
Page 281 - League ; no peace was to be concluded with France but by common consent ; conquests made by any of the belligerents were to remain unappropriated until the general peace ; and at the termination of the war a Congress was to fix certain disputed points of international right, and to establish a federative European system for their maintenance and enforcement. As the immediate objects of the League, the treaty specified the expulsion of the French from Holland, Switzerland, Italy, and Northern Germany;...