Europe in the XIX Century, 1815-1878
Journal: Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew)
Year: 2010

natural boundaries of France to be hers, namely the Rhine and the Alps.Prussia, deserting the Allies, recognised the Rhine frontier in 1795, for the French armies had actually won it.Bonaparte's campaigns of 1796 and 1797 in north Italy took the French arms far beyond the natural boundaries.His tremendous victories in 1805-07 laid all central Europe at his feet.He, as Emperor, was heir to the Repubhc in so far as he broke down all out-of-date medieval survivals and feudal inequaHties.Where he an