"Battle of jena" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had promised to his subjects. Other indications were not wanting that the German princes might not yet be ready to give up their former despotic power and adopt the principles of the French Revolution advocated by the liberals. A "League of Virtue" had been formed after the disastrous battle of Jena to arouse and keep alive the zeal of the nation for expelling the invader. This began to be renforced, about 1815, by student associations organized by those who had returned to their studies from the war of independence. The students anathematized ...
— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson |
