Word: napoleonism
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After the fall of Napoleon, France and Austria were considered two of the greatest powers of the world, but the War of 1870 revealed that Germany, a greater power than either, had arrived upon the scene. And World War II revealed that the U.S. and modern Russia were both greater powers than Germany. The victorious coalition of these two with Britain promises to dominate the world until the next great war-or until mankind can find a better argument than...
Behind these armored needles lacing up the German shroud, the Allies tidied and mopped up. Regensburg, the Ratisbon where Napoleon won a battle and a wound in the heel; Augsburg, 95 miles from the Brenner Pass; Bremen in the north, Germany's second largest seaport, all fell within the week...
...shells from 88s and 105s, met the 2nd and 69th Infantry Divisions fighting their way in. The doughboys mopped up resistance, except for a nest of Germans, including the garrison commander holed up in the huge, red granite "Battle of the Nations" monument (a memorial to the defeat of Napoleon by a Prussian-Austrian-Russian-Swedish coalition...
Herr Krupp pondered. For five generations his family had forged arms-for Napoleon, for the Habsburgs, for the Hohenzollerns, for the Nazis, for any customers with cash. They had made $200,000,000 in World War I. They had profited even more fabulously-for a while-in World War II. And now? Herr Krupp, merchant of death, answered: "I hope to rebuild the factories and produce again...
...great precedent for the disposal of defeated conquerors had been Napoleon's exile on St. Helena. In the world of 1945, that solution did not appeal to statesmen who pondered the recent career of Benito Mussolini. Shamed and defeated though he was before he fled to haven with the Nazis in northern Italy, he still retained immense standing and kept Fascism alive in millions of Italian hearts...