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Excerpt from Life and Times of Alexander I, Vol. 3 of 3: Emperor of All the Russias
In December Murat returned to Italy, and there wrote urging Napoleon to make peace, or to proclaim the unity and independence of Italy, as the only means of preserving her as an ally to France. If you put at my disposal, he wrote, the provinces beyond the Po, I will engage that the Austrians shall never cross the Adige. He added, that without those provinces he dare not bring an army to assist France, leaving between himself and his own kingdom a district ready to rise for Austria and Sardinia. Napoleon sent him no answer, but permitted the P0pe to return, whereupon Murat took posses sion of Rome; the French garrison retiring into St. Angelo. He proclaimed to his soldiers it was no longer possible to give credit to the illusion that Napoleon fought for the peace and happiness of France. There are but two banners in Europe - Religion, Morality, Justice, Law, Peace, and Happi ness on one side on the other, Persecution, Artifice, Violence, Tyranny, War, and mourning to all nations. He ended by signing a treaty of peace with the Allies, January l0th, 1813.
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In December Murat returned to Italy, and there wrote urging Napoleon to make peace, or to proclaim the unity and independence of Italy, as the only means of preserving her as an ally to France. If you put at my disposal, he wrote, the provinces beyond the Po, I will engage that the Austrians shall never cross the Adige. He added, that without those provinces he dare not bring an army to assist France, leaving between himself and his own kingdom a district ready to rise for Austria and Sardinia. Napoleon sent him no answer, but permitted the P0pe to return, whereupon Murat took posses sion of Rome; the French garrison retiring into St. Angelo. He proclaimed to his soldiers it was no longer possible to give credit to the illusion that Napoleon fought for the peace and happiness of France. There are but two banners in Europe - Religion, Morality, Justice, Law, Peace, and Happi ness on one side on the other, Persecution, Artifice, Violence, Tyranny, War, and mourning to all nations. He ended by signing a treaty of peace with the Allies, January l0th, 1813.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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