Many wars were caused by this conquest, but it was two hundred and thirty years before the Christian peoples won back their territory.

(The mountaineers of Switzerland won their independence from the Empire in the fourteenth century, and formed a little republic.)

The victorious French, exulting in their newly-won freedom from the tyranny of kings and nobles, were full of warlike pride in the wonderful victories gained by their armies under the brilliant leadership of Napoleon.

Greece broke out into insurrection against the Turks, and fifteen years after the Congress of 1815 won its right to independence.

If they won, the Sardinians were to receive all north Italy, and in return for France’s help were to give France the county of Savoy and the seaport of Nice.

On the other hand, the French emperor was extremely jealous of the easy victory that Prussia and Italy had won over Austria.

Later on, after the Prussian army had won its rapid victories, first over the Danes, then over the Austrians, and lastly over the French, the Prussian people, swollen with pride at what their armies had accomplished, forgave Bismarck for riding rough-shod over their liberties.

How were the German merchants won over to war?

France, England, and Russia were ready to pay back Serbia for the loss of Macedonia, by promising her Bosnia and Herzegovina in case they won the war from Austria.

(As these little countries won their independence from Turkey, they almost always called in foreign princes to be their kings.

Little by little, from the time when the Greeks first won their independence from Turkey in 1829, the boundary of their kingdom has been pushed northward, freeing more and more of their people from the rule of the Ottomans.

Constantine had allowed his sympathies with his wife’s brother to prevent his country from carrying out her solemn treaty; had ruled like an absolute monarch; had plotted with all his power for the overthrow of Russia, France, and England, the three countries which had won Greece its independence in the first place and which still desired its people to have the right to rule themselves.

In December, 1916, at the close of the victorious German campaign against Roumania, the central powers, weary of war and beginning to feel the pinch of starvation and the drain on their young men, made it known that as they had won the war they were now ready to treat for peace.

In other words, here were the two conflicting claims: Germany said, “We have won the war.

They did not want the war to be won by the one nation in their group which had a despotic form of government.

In November, 1917, a faction of the extreme Socialists called the Bolsheviki (Bŏl-shĕ-vï′kï) won over the garrisons of Petrograd and Moscow, seized control of the government, forcing Kerensky to flee, and threatened to make peace with Germany.

If our government had forbidden our people to sell war supplies at all, and if other neutral countries had done the same thing, then the result would be that all wars would be won by the country which made the biggest preparation for war in times of peace.

Thus there was great danger that, having won the war from the Entente or having stood them off successfully until the fight was declared a draw, Germany would next attack the United States with the idea of collecting from this comparatively defenseless and very rich country the huge indemnity which she had planned to assess upon France and Russia.

Any one of these three factors might have won the war in short order for the forces of Austria and Germany.

Amongst those seemingly the most impatient was Miss Ada Bell, who looked but little older than when she won the heart of the orphan Clarence, years before, by that kind kiss upon his childish brow.

He had won a thousand of me, and hounded me from post to pillar, offering to be cleared out by my skill, as he called it sneeringly.

" Inestimable moral gains, which can never be lost in any later developments, have been won by this struggle.

"He so won upon him, that he rendered him one of the faithfulest and most affectionate allies the Medes ever had.

He wooed and won the Lady Annabel.

After a fierce battle the sun won out this morning, and even the blind would know by the dancing feel of the air that it was a glorious day.