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situation  of  the  French  was  quite  hopeless  and  only  presented
the  alternatives  of  taking  refuge  in  Belgium  or  of  a  desperate
dash  westwards  for  Mézières.  The  king  viewed  the  battle
of  September  1,  1870,  from  the  top  of  the  hill  of  Frénois,  just
S.  of  Donchery.

vollständig  umzingelt:  on  the  E.  and  SE.  the  army  of
the  Kronprinz  von  Sachsen;  on  the  S.  the  Kronprinz  von
Preussen,  ready  to  swing  round  to  the  W.;  the  sth  and  ruthb
Armee-Corps  and  the  Garde  completed  the  ring  W.  and
NW.  to  the  Belgian  frontier.

Bedrängnis,  pl.  —sso:  one  of  the  few  (18)  fem.  in
-nis,  it=  straits’;  das  Drangsal=  calamity  and  der
Jammer=  woe.
da  es  mir  nieder:  in  French:
Monsieur  mon  frere!
N’ayam  pas  pu  mourir  au  milien  de  mes  troupes,
il  ne  me  reste  du'd  remettre  mon  6pee  entre  les  mains  de
votre  Majesté.
Je  suis  de  votre  Majesté  le  bon  frere,
NAPOLEON.  —Sedan,  le  2  sept.  1870.

übereinandergelegen,  to  superpose'’;  similarly  übereinanderschlagen

  to  cross  (the  legs)  fold  (the  arms).“

der  so  jäh  .  Franzosenkaiser:  see  note,  p.  2  I.  21.

was  verschuldet,  how  Napoleon  I.  had  wronged  bis
late  parents  in  his  days  at  Tilsit.“

Tilsit  (see  note,  p.  r  1.  2)  der  Oheim:  Napoleon  I.

ia,  certainly';  see  note,  p.  3  1  24.

Wilhelmshöhe:  a  rocpya#l  residence  about  three  miles  from
Kassel,  beautifully  situated  in  an  extensive  park.  Here
Napoleon  remained  from  September  1870  to  April  187x1,
when  he  moved  to  Chiselhurst  near  London.  He  died
there  January  1873.

übergeführt,  transported,'  where  über  has  an  ach.  force,
across’“;  in  which  sense  and  when  meaning  cverflowing
—die  Augen  liefen  (gehen)  ihm  über  tears  started  to  his
eyes  —it  forms  separable  verbs.  Cf.  its  inseparable  force  im
man  überführt  ihn  eines  Verbrechens  he  is  convicted  of
a  crime.  There  are  only  a  few  separable  compounds  of
über;  see  note,  p.  8  I.  15.
in  alle  Welt,  into  all  the  world’  to  all  people.  All  is
generally  used  in  the  plur.,  while  ganz  and  jeder  are
employed  in  the  sing.  All  can,  however,  as  here,  be  used
in  the  sing.  with  abstracts  in  tbe  sense  of  a  high  degree  of:
das  macht  ihm  alle  Ehre  (°honour’);  in  aller  Eile