Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1914 — Banded Against Napoleon. [ARTICLE]

Banded Against Napoleon.

One hundred years ago Great Britain, Russia, Austria and Prussia concluded the treaty of Chaumont, so called after the French town where the allied sovereigns then had their headquarters. Fearing the disputes might break up the coalition when its object—the overthrow of Nopolean—was all but accomplished, Lord Castlereagh, the British plenipotentiary, proposed to conclude a treaty among the four great powers which should bind them solemnly to one another, at first until the conclusion of the existing war, and then for 20 years afterward. The treaty of Chaumont, however, was soon after succeeded by that of Paris, signed April 11, 1814, by which Napoleon renounced his sovereignty.