Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
Mss:766 1754-1898. Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.
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thh, at the openill;!:
ot
the great Expo.Uion at Parh, the French D:IIperor
had
taken the oc:ca.ion
ot
hh openill4!: ,petch to 1uue a ,ort of 1Il8JI1teito
to Europe , callin,g on the other powen to take lide, with on, or the other,
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that everyone alwvld lInow how they _tood. Tbil apeech
had
a great
retlnti.._nt in Europe, but had no effect on the neutral powera . A.a an
offset to
it,
the limperor Nicllola,
ot
Ru..
ia paid a vilit to the _eror ot
Auatria, who received
him
in great atate at Ollllutz. Thil place had been
befoTe noted ... that where Wa,yette apent 10
ms.ny
yeara in prhon .
Here waB £athered a large
ar.u;;r
of more than
50, 000
men. repre.
prellenting the fineat troop I ot Allatria, and abo repreeentin& the diven
nationalitiu of which that »upire h coopoaed. It _I remarkable al
ahowing
the
different races brought under the Austrian Iceptre. and owning
fsalty to
it ,
although not .uch a tie aa mAkes one naUonaliQ: ot
Eng~
lilh:Den, and
Frencbrp~m
and i:ooricana . It .... a great a1eht and one not
to be mined. 10
King
and I went
down
froc Vienna and .-u.cceeded, after
lome difficulty, in getting quarterl,
The
place ...a overrun by viaitorl
frOll! all Europe.
The great light __ wben the three emperor. and the Gra.'ld
Duke
were collected in a group and the arnv marched paat thEm!, Each regiment
aa it paned laluted.
The
bands of ti'.. fifty or more Tegimente were
mailed aa one, which mult have mede more than
3()()
J
men. They pla,yed
the
national loire of all
the
countr!ell reprellented, The lCene wal one of great
enthueiallll, but a. a political deconltration
it
had
no more effect than
the. French Dnperor'l manifllto. I have eeen aoca othar great gatheringa
of troopl and th1l 11 a eood place to apeak of them,
T'ne firat, after the militia traini11il: of
ar:r
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.
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1853
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10,000
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