Identifier: storyofnineteent01broo (find matches)
Title: The story of the nineteenth century of the Christian era
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Nineteenth century. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston, Lothrop publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ear of1855, other twin towers, seemingly impregnable, relics ofthe days of barbarism and despotism. Even, as in Egyptand the East, the stick-plough and the shadoof of Abrahamstime were still used in farming, so, in civilized lands, cer-tain institutions of the days of patriarchial barbarism stillsurvived, unmolested. There was slavery in progressive America, and serfdomin veneered Russia ; labor was still disenfranchised in phil-anthropic England, and popular rights were disregarded inrevolutionary France ; absolutism still held sway in liberalGermany, and Austrias clutch still lay stern and unyield-ing upon the throat of trampled Italy ; intemperance andpauperism still walked hand in hand throughout the world,and all alliances for mutual protection and mutual benefitseemed alike powerless to resist and impotent to reform. Gradually, however, the trenches of the allies drewcloser and closer to the Russian works ; disease and in-competency, to be sure, wasted the allied ranks, but they
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TYPES OF THE ) Thiers Napoleon III hnc r^c <-AwrMin I Mrs. Stowe Victoria AGE OF CAVOUR ) Cavour Tennyson HOW ONE MAN LIBERATED A NATION. 221 never relaxed their stubborn grip upon besieged Sebastopol.Austria, fearful for its eastern boundaries, joined the alli-ance against Russia ; and the Count Cavour, with the for-tunes of Italy in his hands, boldly and shrewdly pledgedthe little kingdom of Sardinia to the same alliance, andsecured for himself the friendship of England and France,so necessary to his patriotic plans. In September, 1855, the twin towers of the Malakoffand the Redan fell before the allied assaults; Sebastopolwas evacuated, and the Crimea lay at the mercy of theallies. Crushed by the weight of his disasters and thefailure of his plans, the Czar Nicholas died of a brokenheart — and the stubborn cause of despotism seeminglydied with him. The defeat of Russia in the Crimean Warwas her salvation rather than her disgrace. The newCzar, Alexander II., making a virtue of

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