Footsteps to History, Being an Epitome of the Histories of England and France, from the Fifth to the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)

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.1853 Excerpt: ... BONAPARTE DYNASTY REVIVED, AFTER AN INTERVAL OF THIRTY-SIX TEARS. LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, Nephew of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, elected President of the French Republic, December 10th, 1848, seized upon supreme power December 2nd, 1851. THE FOURTH REVOLUTION IN FRANCE, DEC. 2nd, 1851. Tears after Christ. 1848. LOUIS WAPOLEON UOXAPABTI. FOURTH REVOLUTION. 1851. "The ion of King Louis, o'er Holland who reign'd, Is the President Prince who all suffrages gained, In his government aided by Councils of State, The Nation's Assembly, the learned, the great. But brief the repose, --and the moment arrived, Th' Assembly dissolved, and its leaders proscribed; Again a revolt by the bayonet quelled. By the troops who the President's measures upheld, And seizing on power like Napoleon the Great, Napoleon the Third the Head of the State 1 Cotemporarp in England. The Prince Charles Loins Napoleon Bonaparte, born at Paris, April 20th, 1808, is the only surviving son of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, and Hortense Beauharnois, daughter of the Empress Josephine by her first marriage with General Beauharnois. King Louis, called to the throne of Holland July 5th, 1806, abdicated July 1st, 1810, in favour of his son, the elder brother of Prince Louis; and, after residing a short time in Austria and Switzerland, established himself, like many of the members of the Bonaparte family after the events of 1814, in Italy, where, under the title of Count St. The French invaded Holland in 1793, took possession of it January, 1795, and expelled the Statdholder. Holland was erected into a kingdom by Bonaparte, and united to France, 1810. In 1813 the kingdom of Holland, with Belgium annexed to it, was restored to the family of the Statdholder. Belgium was separated from Holla...