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Charles Morris. Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century
Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. The Threshold of the Century
CHAPTER II. Napoleon Bonaparte; The Man of Destiny
CHAPTER III. Europe in the Grasp of the Iron Hand
CHAPTER IV. The Decline and Fall of Napoleon’s Empire
CHAPTER V. Nelson and Wellington, the Champions of England
CHAPTER VI. From the Napoleonic Wars to the Revolution of 1830
CHAPTER VII. Bolivar, the Liberator of Spanish America
CHAPTER VIII. Great Britain as a World Empire
CHAPTER IX. The Great Reform Bill and the Corn Laws
CHAPTER X. Turkey, the “Sick Man” of Europe
CHAPTER XI. The European Revolution of 1848
CHAPTER XII. Louis Napoleon and the Second French Empire
CHAPTER XIII. Garibaldi and the Unification of Italy
CHAPTER XIV. Bismarck and the New Empire of Germany
CHAPTER XV. Gladstone, the Apostle of Liberalism in England
CHAPTER XVI. Ireland the Downtrodden
CHAPTER XVII. England and Her Indian Empire
CHAPTER XVIII. Thiers, Gambetta, and the Rise of the French Republic
CHAPTER XIX. Paul Kruger and the Struggle for Dominion in South Africa
CHAPTER XX. The Rise of Japan and the Decline of China
CHAPTER XXI. The Era of Colonies
CHAPTER XXII. How the United States Entered the Century
CHAPTER XXIII. Expansion of the United States from Dwarf to Giant
CHAPTER XXIV. The Development of Democratic Institutions in America
CHAPTER XXV. America’s Answer to the British Claim of the Right of Search
CHAPTER XXVI. The United States Sustains Its Dignity Abroad
CHAPTER XXVII. Webster and Clay and the Preservation of the Union
CHAPTER XXVIII. The Annexation of Texas and the War with Mexico
CHAPTER XXIX. The Negro in America and the Slavery Conflict
CHAPTER XXX. Abraham Lincoln and the Work of Emancipation
CHAPTER XXXI. Grant and Lee and the Civil War
CHAPTER XXXII. The Indian in the Nineteenth Century
CHAPTER XXXIII. The Development of the American Navy
CHAPTER XXXIV. America’s Conflict With Spain
CHAPTER XXXV. The Dominion of Canada
CHAPTER XXXVI. Livingstone, Stanley, Peary, Nansen and Other Great Discoverers and Explorers
CHAPTER XXXVII. Robert Fulton, George Stephenson, and the Triumphs of Invention
CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Evolution in Industry and the Revolt Against Capital
CHAPTER XXXIX. Charles Darwin and the Development of Science
CHAPTER XL. Literature and Art in the Nineteenth Century
CHAPTER XLI. The American Church and the Spirit of Human Brotherhood
CHAPTER XLII. The Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Footnotes
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Charles Morris
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Meanwhile the armies in Italy and Germany were doing their best to obey orders. Massena was attacked by the Austrians before he could concentrate his troops, his army was cut in two, and he was forced to fall back upon Genoa, in which city he was closely besieged, with a fair prospect of being conquered by starvation if not soon relieved. Moreau was more fortunate. He defeated the Austrians in a series of battles and drove them back on Ulm, where he blockaded them in their camp. All was ready for the great movement which Napoleon had in view.
Twenty centuries before Hannibal had led his army across the great mountain barrier of the Alps, and poured down like an avalanche upon the fertile plains of Italy. The Corsican determined to repeat this brilliant achievement and emulate Hannibal’s career. Several passes across the mountains seemed favorable to his purpose, especially those of the St. Bernard, the Simplon and Mont Cenis. Of these the first was the most difficult; but it was much the shorter, and Napoleon determined to lead the main body of his army over this ice-covered mountain pass, despite its dangers and difficulties. The enterprise was one to deter any man less bold than Hannibal or Napoleon, but it was welcome to the hardihood and daring of these men, who rejoiced in the seemingly impossible and spurned at hardships and perils.
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