Identifier: makersofworldshi00nort (find matches)
Title: Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: World history. (from old catalog) Biography
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rolled over in theagonies of death, and Napoleon thenceforth kept his snuff in his waistcoatpockets, which he had sheathed with tin. November 20th, he promulgated at Berlin the famous decree by whichhe proposed to exclude the trade of Britain from all the ports of the con-tinent. In June, 1807, having overrun Poland, he totally defeated theemperor of Russia at Eglan and Friedland, after which an interview tookplace between them on a raft on the Niemeu, followed by the treaty ofTilsit. In Novemberof that year he marched an army into Lisbon, drivingthe Portuguese court to the Brazils; and on December i, created hisyounger brother, Jerome, king of Westphalia. On May 5, 1808, was con-cluded the treaty by which Charles IV ceded to the emperor all his rightsin the crown of Spain. Joseph, brother of the emperor, was proclaimed NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. 367 king of Spain on the 6tli of June. On the 27th of September, in the sameyear, Napoleon had an amicable interview with the emperor of Russia at
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BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ. Erfurt, and they jointly proposed peace with England, which was rejected.On the 29th of October the emperor departed from Paris and placed 368 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. himself at tlie head of the army in Spain, the right wing of which pur-sued Sir John Moore to Corunna, while he marched to Madrid and seatedhis brother on the Spanish throne; but in the meantime the Austrianstook the field; Napoleon hastened to oppose them, and gained suc-cessive victories at Abensburg, Eckmuhl and Ratisbon. On the i6thof December, 1809, he divorced the empress, Josephine, and on the 2dof April, 1810, married Maria Louisa, archduchess of Austria. The20th of March, 1811, was signalized by the birth of his son, who wascrowned king of Rome amidst public rejoicings. DISASTROUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST MOSCOW. In 1812, he assembled a great .army in Poland and invaded Russia,and having at the Borodino, and at Moskwa, gained two bloody victories,he entered Moscow on the 14th of September; that city, h

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