French acquisitions in Elsass; France reaches and passes the Rhine; increased isolation 347-348 Temporary annexation of Bar; annexation of Roussillon; advance in the Netherlands 348-349 Annexation of Franche Comté and Besançon; seizure of Strassburg; annexation of Orange 349-350 Annexation of Lorraine; thorough incorporation of French conquests; effect of geographical continuity 350-351 Purchase of Corsica; its effects; birth of Buonaparte 351-352 § 3. _The Colonial Dominion of France._ French colonies in North America; Acadia; Canada; Louisiana 352 Colonial rivalry of France and England; English conquest of Canada 353 French West India Islands 353 The French power in India; Bourbon and Mauritius 353-354 § 4. _Acquisitions of France during the Revolutionary Wars._ Distinction between the Republican and ‘Imperial’ Conquests 355-356 First class of annexations; Avignon, Mülhausen, Montbeliard; Geneva; bishopric of Basel 355 Second zone; traditions of Gaul and the Rhine; Netherlands; Savoy, &c.; feelings of Buonaparte towards Switzerland 355-356 Character of Buonaparte’s conquests; dependent and incorporated lands; division of Europe between France and Russia 356-357 The French power in 1811 357-358 Arrangements of 1814-1815 358-359 Later changes; annexation of Savoy, Nizza, and Mentone; loss of Elsass and Lorraine 359 Losses among the colonies; independence of Hayti; sale of Louisiana 359-360 Conquest of Algeria; character of African conquests 360 CHAPTER X. THE EASTERN EMPIRE. Comparison of the Eastern and Western Empires; the Western falls to pieces from within; the Eastern is broken to pieces from without 362-363 Tendencies to separation in the Eastern Empire 363 Closer connexion of the East with the elder Empire; retention of the Roman name; _Romania_ 363-364 Importance of the distinction of races in the East 364 The original races; Albanians, Greeks, Vlachs 364 Slavonic settlers 364 Turanian invasions from the North; Bulgarians, Magyars, &c. 365 The Saracens 365 The Seljuk and Ottoman Turks; comparison of Bulgarians, Magyars, and Ottomans 365