A Compendium of Ancient and Modern History; With Questions Adapted to the Use of Schools and Academies, Also an Appendix Containing the Declaration of Independence from the Creation to the Year 1845 - Softcover

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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. 1851. Excerpt: ... expense of the war, and maintain for five years an army consisting of one hundred and fifty thousand of the allied troops, to be Elaced in different fortresses on the frontiers. Murat, who had een raised to the throne of Naples, and Marshal Ney, having both taken part with Buonaparte after his return from Elba, were sentenced to be shot. 38. Louis XVIII. was succeeded in 1824 by his brother, Count d'Artois, under the title of Charles X. _ The reign of this monarch was signalized by two foreign enterprises; one in favor of the Greeks, in which France united with England and Russia, the other against the city of Algiers, which surrendered to the French after a siege of six days, on the 5th of July, 1830. This reign was also disturbed by the contests between the ultra-royalists and the liberal party. 39. In March, 1830, the chamber of deputies made a strong stand against the ministry; in consequence of this, the chamber was dissolved by the king and new elections ordered. On the 26th of July, it having been ascertained that a great majority of the newly elected members were liberal, an ordinance was issued by the government, dissolving the chamber before it met, suspending the liberty of the press, and altering the mode of elections. _ v. 40. The publication of this ordinance caused the greatest commotion in Paris; the citizens took up arms against the government, and on the 29th of July gained a decided advantage over the king's guards. The chamber of deputies met on the third of August; the throne was declared vacant, and the Duke of Orleans was called to accept the crown. On the 9th of August the Duke took the oath prescribed, and ascended the_ throne of France under the title of Louis Philip, the present king. At the commencement of the outbreak in Paris...

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