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Title: Mediæval and modern history
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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reproachedthem with doing, make appointments at his grave. He had nowsomething more than a life interest in France. The successionwas assured. 573. Holland and North German Coast Lands annexed toNapoleons Empire (isio). During this year of his secondmarriage Napoleon made two fresh territorial additions to hisempire. Louis Bonaparte,— king of Holland, it will be recalled,—dis-approving of his brothers Continental System, which was ruiningthe trade of the Dutch, abdicated the crown. Thereupon Napo-leon incorporated Holland with the French Empire. A few months later Napoleon also annexed to his empire allthe German coast land from Holland to Liibeck in order to be 1 Josephine was divorced December 15, 1809; the marriage to Marie Louise tookplace April 2, iSio. Josephine retained her title of Empress and was assigned the palaceof Malmaison as a residence, with a pension of two million francs a year. To the verylast she and Napoleon were good friends. Her death occurred May 29, 1S14.
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§574) NAPOLEONS EMPIRE 495 able to close the important ports here, including the old Hanseaticcities of Bremen, Hamburg, and Liibeck, against English trade. 574. Napoleons Empire at its Greatest Extent (18I1). Inthese additions the Napoleonic empire received its last enlarge-ment. Napoleon was now, in outward seeming,^ at the height ofhis marvelous fortunes. Marengo, Austerlitz, Jena, Friedland, andWagram were the successive steps by which he had mounted tothe most dizzy heights of military power and glory. The empire which this soldier of fortune had built up stretchedfrom Liibeck to beyond Rome, embracing France proper, theNetherlands, part of western and northwestern Germany, allwestern Italy as far south as the kingdom of Naples, togetherwith the Illyrian Provinces and the Ionian Islands. On all sides were allied, vassal, or dependent states. Severalof the ancient thrones of Europe were occupied by Napoleonsrelatives or his favorite marshals. He himself was king of thekingdom of

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