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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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almly intheir seats awaiting the inevitable. Some one showed General Trochu a wayof escape, but he declined it, saying, Friend, a soldier dies at his post ofduty. Word of the perilous position of the government finally reached theregular troops; and they hastened to their chiefs defense and suppressed thetumult. Its consequences they could not suppress. Negotiations for peace withGermany had been once more under way; but at news of the rioting in Paris,Bismarck broke them off, on the old plea that here was yet another government,and he knew not with which to deal. Doubtless he felt that, if the jarringfactions meant to destroy each other, he could make better terms with the ex-hausted remnant. Another evil which sprang from the disaster at Metz, was that it left freethe huge German army there, and these troops hastened to reinforce theirbrethren before Paris, who were in urgent need of help. The French arrny ofthe Loire under General de Palladines had performed its part in the general
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France—The End of the War 941 plan, by attacking the invaders from the south. At the same time the Pari-sians sallied out upon them repeatedly, in force. There was severe fighting allthrough November. The arrival of the second German army upon the scene made the strugglehopeless, yet it was persistently maintained. A body of fifty thousand troopsunder General Ducrot fought their way out from Paris as far as Champigny onthe further shore of the river Marne. They had three days of sickening car-nage, during which more Frenchmen fell than the armies of Napoleon III.had lost at Worth or Gravelotte. The besiegers also lost heavily. But thearmy of the Loire was defeated and scattered; so Ducrot and his men fell backupon Paris to await the end. The defenses of the metropolis were strong,—impregnable her newspapershad once boasted; and the most difficult problem of the sorely harassed govern-ment became the feeding of the vast multitude within the walls. These soonstooped to mule meat, ne

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