WELLINGTON AND NAPOLEON—A PARALLEL
... IWELLINGTON AND NAPOLEON-A PARALLEL. The wars of revolutionary France commenced near the field of Waterloo, where they terminated. France, with a population nursed in anarchy, blood, and infidelity, became as it were a vial of wrath poured out over the face of civilised Europe. Her legions were commanded by a vaunting leader, supported by upstart satellites, whose objects seem 'to have been ...