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time, but Mexico would not receive

his ENJOYS.
Finally he sent q representative, |
Nicholas p. Trist. along with Gen. Win
field Scott's army. Trist was author
lied to treat with Mexico as soon as |
the enemy government would grant |
him hearing.
But Scott quarreled with Trist and
refused to transmit his letter to the |
Mexican leaders. Trist was forced to |
get the British minister to forward 1t |
| for him.
After repeated discouraging fail
ures and rebuffs. he finally met COM
missioners who had been appointed by
the new Mexican government which
succeeded that of Santa Anna. But
this was after President Polk had or
dered his recall. Trist disregarded
the recall order and negotiated the
treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. which
was accepted on both sides and end
| ed the war.
President Theodore Roosevelt was
one of the most successful mediators
in history, fact which was recog-
L
awarded him a peace prize.
On June 8, 1905. Roosevelt brought
the Russo-Japanese war to a close by
sending identical dispatches to Petro-
grad and Tokyo urging the belliger-
cnt governments to enter into peace
negotiations.
Russia's defeats In the field and
Japan's serious financial straits Inn
PEELED them to comply. Both sent en-
, voys to the United States, who ne
gotiated the treaty Of Portsmouth. Z
kapoleonIe Treaties.
| The Napoleonic peace treaties usu-
ally began with an armistice. The
? most famous, the treaty Of Tilsit, was
, brought about by a personal meet
= | ing between Napoleon and Alexander
on a raft in the middle Of the River
r Niemen to agree upon an armistice
: which the car had already sought.
+ An armistice was also agreed upon
a after the battle Of Lutzen. but Napo
: leon would not agree to the allies
!. terms and resumed hostilities. His
Z fall in 1914 was accompanied by nc
a negotiations; the allies were actually
in Paris. Napoleon's generals per
v suaded him to sign an act OF abdica
q ton, and the French senate dethronet
n him.
J. On the death Of Gar Nicholas !
+, his successor, Alexander II, announced
d to the courts of Europe his desire tina
T. the Crimean war should end, and thi
t. IL the nearest approach to a parable
d with Germany's action today.
10 A peace conference was held II
It Vienna, but in three months 1t wa
broken OF and the war resumed. IN
war went on until Austria. neutra
!, power, threatened to Join the allies ur
). less the car accepted her ultimatun
~ He at first refused, but a personal LEI
ter from the neutyal king Of Prussi
induced him to reconsider, and tn
q final peace conference was held.
The war of Italy. France and Au!
- tria, In 1859, was terminated In SUI
=. prising fashion by an armistice agree
on personally between Napoleon II
No and Franz Josef, gust as the Frenc
and italian armies were in the fu
tide Of success. Victor Emmanuel We
forced to agree, and the terms OF tn
armistics were embodied In q peat
70 treaty.
~ The Civil War.
he The war between Prussia and De
en- mark in 1884 came abruptly to an er
when the Danes learned that neith'
a England nor France would help theI
on They dismissed their war ministl
til from Office and sent proposals for
truce directly to Berlin and Vienna.
.as The terms Of peace between Il
of United States and the COnfedera'
he were arranged by generals In the f1el
In the war between Austria, Pru
Of STA, and Italy In 1865, Franz Josef, 9
or fer his defeats at Koeniggraetz and Ell!
on where, informed Napoleon III Of b
re- willingness to cede Venetia to Ita
as. and his desire that Napoleon be medl
lon tor. Napoleon accepted, and Bismar
tho drafted the terms and sent them
,a. Napoleon, who, as mediator, accept
ate them. An armistice followed.
In 1870 the French gOvernme
emit which succeeded Napoleon iii ask
de- first for an armistice, then for pea
an but the requests were declined a
Tho the siege of Paris began. After
her surrender of Paris the Germans c.
md sented to an armistice to permit
election of a national assembly viii
ok it could recognize. The preiiminar
any of peace were agreed on between b