Note 288 — Chapter XXVIII · 1870. OCTOBER. SIEGE OF PARIS
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How strangely similar the circumstances alluded to to those of Prussia in the early years of the 19th century! Then “Prussia had made no provision for defeat. Her fortresses, though garrisoned, were ill commanded and unprepared for serious resistance. Passion and sentiment had dictated her war, in which prudence and foresight had no part. Her territory was reduced to a fragment, her army to a mere residue.”—Quarterly Review, October, 1893, page 425.