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Excerpt from England and Napoleon in 1803: Being the Despatches of Lord Whitworth and Others
Opportunities as the head of the State in proposing peace to Austria and England, the two belligerents who still1emained 'in arms. These overtures were rejected by both Powers, (but the battles of Marengo and Hohenlinden led to the Treaty of Luneville, and when the Treaty of Amiens had been signed Napoleon had attained his object. The rup ture renewed a contest which only ended in his defeat and captivity. It is, therefore, of the utmost importance to the student of Napoleon's life and character to determine whether, as English writers generally assert, he only re garded the peace of Amiens as a breathing Space in which he might recover strength to measure himself against England and Europe, or whether, while determining to develop the.
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