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and  Nur  Soldat  (1880);  several  more  on  periods  of
German  history:  Friedrich  Barbarossa  and  Wilhelm
der  Siegreiche.  lie  has  written  altogether  abeut
one  hundred  volumes  of  novels,  stories,  and  fairyp#tales.
The  hero  of  our  narrative  is  Wilhelm  I.;  it  covers
the  period  from  1800,  two  pears  after  the  Peace  of
Tilsit,  to  1888,  that  is  from  the  ear  of  the  battle  of
Wagram  to  that  of  the  death  of  Wilhelm  I.  and  his  son

Friedrich  III.  and  the  accession  of  the  present  (looz)
German  Emperor  and  King  of  Prussia,  Wilhelm  II.
A  short  enumeration  of  the  momentous  events  of  these
years  will  serve  to  show  the  scope  of  the  work.

The  year  1812  saw  Napoleon's  retreat  from  Moscow;
the  three  following  years,  the  great  national  uprising  in
Germany  against  the  tyranny  of  Napoleon,  the  Völkerschlacht
  at  Leipzig,  the  entry  of  the  Allies  into  Paris,  the
abdication  of  Napoleon,  his  return  from  Elba,  and  bis
final  defeat  at  Waterloo  or  Belle  Alliance  by  Wellington
and  Blücher.

From  1815  to  1861,  when  Wilhelm  I.  succeeded
his  brother  Friedrich  Wilhelm  IV.,  was  a  time  of
unrest  in  Europe,  and  in  1848  especially  there  were
revolutionary  outbreaks  in  France,  Austria,  Berlin  and
Baden.

With  1862  began  the  ministry  of  Bismarck,  whose
policy  of  blood  and  iron“  was  marked  by  the  acquisition
  of  Schleswig  and  Holstein  in  1864,  the  “  Seven
Weeks'  War  '  of  866  with  Austria  for  the  leadership  of