[Footnote 51: _Met´ter-nich_, chief minister of Austria from 1809 to 1848.] [Footnote 52: _Blūch´er_, field-marshal of Prussia; a very warlike, upright, and loyal man, but no great general. He hated Napoleon.] [Footnote 53: Village, Prussia, 12 miles south of Berlin.] [Footnote 54: Capital of the kingdom of Saxony, on the Elbe; a great centre of art and learning. It has given its name to a kind of porcelain.] [Footnote 55: Small island (area 86 square miles) off west coast of Italy.] [Footnote 56: _Kā-tr'brā'_, village, 19 miles south-east of Brussels. It stands at cross-roads, whence its name (four arms).] [Footnote 57: _Lē'ny_, village, 25 miles south-east of Brussels.] [Footnote 58: Village in Belgium, 11 miles south of Brussels.] [Footnote 59: Island of the South Atlantic Ocean; area, 47 square miles. Napoleon was kept prisoner at Longwood.] [Footnote 60: _Zoi´der_, means south.] [Footnote 61: Cape of south-west Spain, at the entrance of the Strait of Gibraltar, memorable for Nelson's victory over the combined fleets of France and Spain (Oct. 21, 1805).] CHAPTER VI. THE MAN OF BLOOD AND IRON. When Napoleon was safely imprisoned on St. Helena the Powers met to make peace, and to rearrange the map of Europe. A large part of the left bank of the Rhine which Napoleon had reft from Prussia was given back to her. An arrangement was made that thirty-nine states of Germany should join together into a _Bund_,[62] or bond, and that each state should be represented in its ruling body. Saxony,[63] Wurtemberg,[64] and Bavaria,[65] which had been turned into kingdoms by Napoleon, were allowed to keep their kings, but the brothers and field-marshals whom he had placed on other thrones were dismissed. The only one of his marshals who retained his throne was the King of Sweden. When peace reigned once more, a German prince said, "I have slept seven years; now we will forget the bad dream." But the "bad dream" was a good dream for the peoples of Europe. Though they had suffered so terribly in the wars, the French Revolution had made men very disinclined to allow kings to rule them as they pleased, and had encouraged them everywhere to ask for more freedom to govern themselves. In Germany the people had only two duties--to pay and to obey. Now they asked for many rights which they had never possessed before, and in some of the states they obtained them; but the King of Prussia held out to the last, and only gave his people a Parliament when he could resist the demand no longer.