ISBN: 1130010325

[EAN: 9781130010329], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], SPENCER WALPOLE,WORLD, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 182 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.4in.This historic book… More...

[EAN: 9781130010329], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], SPENCER WALPOLE,WORLD, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 182 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.4in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: . . . 300, 000 people to the Prussian kingdom was not Chap. a very serious matter; but he went on to say that--jrj any transfer of population from one government to another would require the sanction of Europe; and, he added, that Count von Goltz could not forget that he had always insisted that any addition to Prussian territory on the right bank of the Ehine must be accompanied by some concession to France on the left bank. 1 T have passed over the previous Founding of the German Empire, negotiations between Herr von Goltz vol. v. p. 265 ey. For Count von and the Emperor as hardly germane Bismarcks instructions to von Goltz, to a history of England. For an ibid. , pp. 286, 318. account of them, see Von Sybel, M. Drouyn de Lhuys had met the Prussian Ambas-Count von i i-i-i r n i i Goltz and sador with diplomatic caution. Count von Goltz, how-Napoleon ever, had probably expected little from the French ra Minister. Leaving M. Drouyn de Lhuys, he drove at once to the Emperor. He probably knew that Napoleon III. would pay very little attention to his Ministers suggestion that changes in the map of Europe should require European sanction; and that he was still fascinated by the prospect of completing his work in Italy by the liberation of Venice, and by the promise, which the tempter had held out to him, of enlarging his own dominions. With the Emperor, therefore, Count von Goltz ventured on advancing much more serious pretensions than he had formulated to M. Drouyn de Lhuys; and he succeeded so well, that he persuaded the Emperor to agree to the transfer of Hanover, Electoral Hesse, and Frankfort, or of some 4, 500, 000 people, to Prussia; and to postpone for the moment any negotiations on the compensation which should be awarded to France. 1 The Emperor did man. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

ISBN: 9781130010329

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