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After the conquest of the Balkan Peninsula by the Turks, who were intent on extending the Ottoman Empire even to the north of the Danube, there was little left for the Roumanian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, deserted and abandoned to their fate by the neighbouring...
After the conquest of the Balkan Peninsula by the Turks, who were intent on extending the Ottoman Empire even to the north of the Danube, there was little left for the Roumanian...
2. CHAPTER IIThe Roumanian delegate, Joan Bratianu, arrived at Düsseldorf on Good Friday 1866, to lay the offer of the Roumanian people before Prince Charles and his father. In an audience g...
3. CHAPTER IIIThe first Roumanian Ministry under the new _régime_ was composed of members of all political parties, Conservatives and Liberals, Moldavians and Wallachians, Right, Centre, and...
4. CHAPTER IVEarly in the summer of 1869 Prince Charles received a very cordial invitation to visit the Czar at Livadia in the Crimea. This mark of regard was the more welcome as a project w...
5. CHAPTER VPerhaps the chief amongst the many obstacles which beset the path of Prince Charles in his task of raising Roumania from the depth to which it had sunk was the very serious stat...
6. CHAPTER VIThe first years of Prince Charles's rule were overcast by the shadow thrown by that source of constant trouble in Eastern Europe, the Jewish Question, and by the pro-Semitic agi...
7. CHAPTER VIIThe day selected by the Prince and Princess of Roumania for the commencement of their tour through Moldavia--April 20, 1871--was one of good omen for the result of that journey....
8. part I consider that I have committed an error and that I should"As a matter of fact, I have from the commencement devoted my whole energy to the development of the material welfare of these richly endowed countries. My groundwork was the ex...
9. CHAPTER VIIIDuring the month of August 1875, the situation in Eastern Europe suddenly assumed a threatening aspect, through the outbreak of an armed insurrection against the Turkish rule in...
10. CHAPTER IXBy no means the least of the Prince's tasks was the reorganisation and training of the Roumanian army, which at the time of his accession was in the most deplorable condition. M...
11. CHAPTER XThe long-expected declaration of war between Russia and Turkey took place on April 23, 1877, accompanied by a proclamation to the Roumanian nation from the Grand Duke Nicholas,...
12. CHAPTER XIThe feelings of consternation and bitter resentment evoked by the publication of the Treaty of San Stefano soon found expression in the Roumanian Chamber, where the action of th...