Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-01-25
historical.
RUSSIA.

The youthful Alexander lot WHOSE o'o
vation the deposition and death OF has un-
fortunate father had been rrojec'eo'
,hough filled with horror at the fatal re-
salt, was proclaimed, amid great exui'a.
Ion of his people, and on the 2-th OF
March, 1901, assembled the throne OF all me
Hussias. 1t was, however, ominously re-
marked by lady of rank, at the corona
ION, that the young emperor walked
preceded by the aSsassins OF his grand,
father, followed by those of his father ana
surrounded by his own
The policy of Russia changed forthwith
Alliance with England was Immediately
made, and hostiliiics with France, as
matter of course, soon followed. In the
account of the latter nation, the wars,
treaties and political relations OF france
and Russia, during the remainder OF the
career OF Napoleon, will be found Driehy
narrated. In the splendid and over
whelming victory of Austerltz, decisive
of the fate of Austria, the two northern
sovyceigns !ay completely at the mercy OF
their imperial victor from the south;
and A eXunIer was happy to retire. with
the remain Ter OF his forces, to his own
dominions.
After the campaign of Prussia. in 1906
when that nation, i'll an Incredibly snort
SPACE of time, was defeated aid conquered
by Na, Q.eon, further and most sanguinary
losti.irieS, hiyhy diSas; rOus TO the Gar,
occurred b tween France and Russia
Alexander, seeing his forces again and
again defeated, and desiroUs OF leisure 70
pursue hs ambitious design on Turkey
now changed his policy entirely. lie en-
tered into stri alliance and apparently
per,on Il friendship with the "Man OF Des-
tiuv," before whom every throne on the
continent, e.cept his own, had tottered to
the ground. BY the treaty Of Illslt, IN
1891, al the ambitious schemes OF Napo-
leon wee lecogni ed by the Gar, and ex-
,ensive ans for Con .uest and PARTITION
were agi,ated by the imperial a.ies. The
entire policy of France was adopted ana
Wi ii such support, seemed secure OF con-
trolling. with hardly an effort, that OF all
comtiuenia al Europe.
Mutual jealousy, ere long, broke up
these promising projects Napoleon per
ceived that he had lent too haSiy en-
courag ment to tie designs of his ally up
ON Turkey: and that tie Russian empire,
once in possession of ioothold OH the
Med terrauean, might become too prepon-
deraut for the safety of his own posses
SONS. Lis refusal 10 ! eIm.t the spola-
1iou of the IL tan. combined with TIE un-
p,pularitv in kuss:a OF tie new alliance
and the acts restricting commercial inter
cour e. cstran-e the ii sian sovereign,
and pre- i Itated h0silitie5. Negotiation
was or long time carried on between
the TWO : owes. each ;or time stunning
the responsibility of again committing
Euro e to general war.
All attempts at pacific arrangement,
however, proved fruitlesS; and in the
summer of 1872, the French Emperor,
with nearly half a million OF men, set out
upon Ii memolab e expedition to con-
uucr the wi d, OF the No thern empire
The sanguiuary battle of Borodino, ON the
9th of Sc tembrr, opened his way to the
ancient capital Of Russia; and on the 1ith,
with the army under his immediate com
mand reduced by fighting and hardship
10 about all hundred In usand men. he en-
tered ..o, ow, and took up hir u"rters in
the il. pcria palace OF the hremlin.
The city was deserted eXccp' by ruiiians
and inc. n auries; and the memOla able con-
laor,tion winch, duIing the next four
d;,vs, laid ii in ashes, disc ncerteI all the
d ans # Napo con and rendered retreat IN
evl.aD.e: after m nth passe in Va and
fiuIi Z 5 attempts at negotiation with the
G. ar. Who knew his advantage too well TO
treat. lie rench army, in three divisions,
commenced retrograde movement to-
ward lLe frontier The horrors of this dis
astrous retreat, a. grayated 10y winter
. unu,ua " ear Y and severe. pehaps sur
pas, ,nylhlng recorded in the ca antilles
oi warfare Day alter day, the unlortu-
nt o.Q els OF the Grand lmv," accus-
loireI To the mi Ger climates OF italy and
France, syAk Ii great numb BY the