SEPTEMBER 2nd
BATTLE OF SEDAN
The Germans have not conquered very much in history as a whole. About fifty years ago they beat the French and fifty years before that the French very soundly beat them. If we see history as a whole there is no more doubt that the French people is the more military than there is that the German people is the more musical. Germany is a great and splendid nation; and there are millions of sensible German patriots grappling with the sins and follies which are part of her problem.
'Illustrated London News.'
Nota Bene ~ In his excessive Francophilia, he neglects to mention that von Blücher and his Prussians were in at the kill at Waterloo, when the Revolutionary usurper, Napoleon, was defeated.
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