The Coincidence Of Dales And Events

In 1807 France was at war with Prussia. In 1S70 wbicb embraces the same figures roversed, there are again hostihties betwoen thera. In 1756 Ihere was aleo war between thp eame pnvers, in wliich France eustained a severo defeat. Just fifty yeara after th'at eveut, 1806, Prussia was humiliated yea, more than that, olmost deatröyed, by the disastrous doublé battle of Jena tiod Ansterdat. In commenting upon tbat event tbe English historian, Aiison, hofic gympathies wero vith Pruesia, fiays : "Such wcre the disastrous batf Jena and Austerdat, which proetraled the s trength of tbe Prussian monarch y, and iii one day effected tbat wbich all tbe migbt of Bussia, Austria and France had been unible to effect in the seven years war from 1756 to 1763." Curionsly enough, eisty years from that time, ia 1866, Prussia was raised to the lieigbt of power by tbe cx'.raordinary resulta of tbe battle of Sadown. In 1805 the Russian power reecived a crushing defeat in the great battle of ""Austerlitz, in which three Emperors wcre present, viz : the Emperors of ÍYance, Russia and Austria. The forces of the two latter wero united, but fourfifthsof thoso who participatod in the Btrugglo at Austerlitz were Russians, A half century passed away, and in 1.855 the l'rench and tbe Itussians were contendiog for eupremacy at Sebastopol 'undír Emperors of tbe samo ñames as tliose who met in 1805. In 1809 tbe French wero at war with the Austriane, and entered Vienna in triumph. In 1859, at the end 'of a half centencial period, the same eountries wero tiigagcd in a deadly contcst, with even larger Dumbers in Northern Italy. In 179'u) the first Napoleon bad seized, is Firet Consul, the supreme authority in Franco. In 1849, fifty years after, Iho third Napoleon had jnst been electtd President of the same couutry.