“As in the American War, France avenges on England her expulsion from the New World, so under Napoleon she makes Titanic efforts to recover her lost place there. This, indeed, is Napoleon’s fixed view with regard to England. He sees in England never the island, the European state, but always the world Empire, the network of dependencies and colonies and islands covering every sea, among which he was himself destined to find his prison and his grave” (Seeley’s “Expansion of England,” p. 33). Footnote 40: The first coalition of England, Prussia, Holland, and Sweden, was for the purpose of keeping the European Peace. The second coalition (1799–1801), composed of Russia, England, Austria, Portugal, Naples, and the Ottoman Empire. The third coalition (1805), composed of England, Russia, Austria, and Sweden. Footnote 41: “Though he was still but forty-seven, the hollow voice and wasted frame of the great Minister had long told that death was near, and the blow to his hopes proved fatal. ‘Roll up that map,’ he said, pointing to the map of Europe, ‘it will not be wanted these ten years.’ Once only he rallied from stupor; and those who bent over him caught a faint murmur of ‘My country! How I leave my country!’” (Green’s “Short History of English People,” p. 799). Footnote 42: Prof. Seeley’s “Expansion of England,” p. 105. Footnote 43: Napoleon, at St. Helena, prophesied that before a century was over Europe would be Cossack or Republican. Footnote 44: “The English victory at La Hogue, and the revival of the trade with Holland, had much to do with Peter’s visit to Archangel” (E. Schuyler’s “Peter the Great,” vol. i. p. 276). Footnote 45: E. Schuyler’s “Peter the Great,” vol. i. p. 323. Footnote 46: E. Schuyler’s “Peter the Great,” vol. i. p. 368. Footnote 47: “Upon the Continental System he (Napoleon) had staked everything. He had united all Europe in the crusade against England; no state, least of all such a state as Russia, could withdraw from the system without practically joining England. Nevertheless, we may wonder that, if he felt obliged to make war upon Russia, he should have chosen to wage it in the manner he did, by an overwhelming invasion” (Seeley’s “A Short History of Napoleon the Great,” p. 169). Prof. Seeley also told the author that “if the Continental System had existed a little longer England would have been ruined, because it seems to me that a revolution would have taken place in England.” Footnote 48: “Napoleon’s great mistake was that he had laid his plan for an invasion of England and a war in Europe at the same time” (Seeley’s “A Short History of Napoleon the Great,” p. 115). Footnote 49: The Prince Regent declared his personal adherence to its principles. Footnote 50: Lord Castlereagh’s Speech, 1812. Footnote 51: