Kaiser Wilhelm II 1888, by Henry Bryan Hall, Jr

Kaiser Wilhelm II, steel engraving by Henry Bryan Hall, Jr., 1888
Identifier: appletonsannualc13newy (find matches)
Title: Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events: embracing political, military, an ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry
Year: 1875 (1870s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York: Appleton
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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rly as the winter of 1868, elaborated a com-plete scheme for the invasion of France. Na-poleon III more confidently and more hastilyrushed into the war in the expectation ofcrushing the military power of Prussia andretrieving his political position at home. Bothgovernments were eager to seize on thedispute about the candidacy of Prince Leopoldof Hohenzollern for the Spanish throne, as adevice for kindling popular enthusiasm in thewar. King Wilhelm, accustomed from hisyouth to a soldiers fare, marched across thefrontier with his armies at the age of 73, fre-quently exposed himself to the enemys fire inthe hottest battles, and by his presence in-spired his troops with irresistible courage. On Jan. 18, 1871, the 170th anniversary ofthe coronation of the first King of Prussia, thevictorious monarch was acclaimed GermanEmperor by the princes of the German statesand the commanders of the army, in the Hallof Mirrors at Versailles. As soon as the warwas over, and the German Empire established
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WILLIAM II. EMPEROR OF GERMANY D.APPLETON&CO. WILHELM II. WISCONSIN. 845 on a firm foundation, Prince Bismarck engagedhis master in a conflict with the CatholicChurch, considering the lately promulgateddoctrine of papal infallibility a menace to thestate, and the attitude of the clericals in tbeReichstag an obstacle to the amalgamation ofthe various elements composing the Empire.When the era of the Kulturkampf was ended,and the force of Separatist resistance had spentitself, the republican and socialistic ideas thatwere an important element in the revolution-ary movement of 1848 asserted themselves inthe Social-Democratic agitation. A desperadonamed Hodel, inflamed with revolutionary pas-sion and desire for notoriety, fired at the Em-peror as he was passing along the avenue Un-ter den Linden, on May 11, 1878. The minis-try presented a bill to suppress the Socialistmovement, which the Reichstag rejected by amajority of nearly 200 votes. Dr. Nobiling,an educated Socialist, moved by