Identifier: childsbookofengl00dark (find matches)
Title: The child's book of England
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Dark, Sidney, 1874-1947
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ranean,which is still hers, and the Cape of Good Hopein South Africa, which was the beginning ofthe British Dominion of South Africa, aboutwhich I shall have more to tell you before Ifinish my story. Napoleon did not stop inElba very long. He soon escaped to France,and most of the French people were glad tosee him because they much preferred the cleverEmperor to the silly king whom foreign coun-tries had chosen for them. For a hundreddays Napoleon was once more Emperor of theFrench, and he was beaten at the battle ofWaterloo, near the city of Brussels in Belgium,by the English led by the Duke of Wellington,and the Prussians led by a general calledBliicher. Once more Napoleon had to sur-render and, this time, he was taken away inan English warship to the far-away island ofSt. Helena, where he lived a very unhappy lifeuntil his death six years afterwards. Everyone was very frightened of Napoleon,and English mothers used to try and maketheir children good by threatening that Napoleon 184
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g1-1 FROM NAPOLEON TO VICTORIA would come for them if they were naughty.It is true that he brought much suffering tothe poor people all over Europe through hisnever-ending wars, but he did some goodthings. He gave France laws which both thepoor and the rich had to obey, and he madethe French peasants happy on little farms,which were really their own, and which nobodycould take away from them. I have already told you several times, thatwars cost a great deal of money, and the costof the long war against Napoleon forced theEnglish Government to make the people payvery high taxes. When the wars were over,and soldiers were discharged from the army,they wandered about the country withoutwork or food. There were several bad harvests,and this made things worse, and when thepeople gathered together to try and find outsome way in which things might be madebetter, soldiers were sent to fire on the unarmedmen and women and to compel them to goback to their homes. The people went onworking long h

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