![]() With the exception of France, where the Greek Revolution found immediate and almost universal favor owing to the peculiar political and psychological atmosphere of the post-Napoleonic period, all the other European Powers at first shared the anti-Greek views of Mettenich. These results were due in the first place to the unexpectedly tenacious and successful struggle of the insurgent Greeks against the terrific might of the Ottoman Empire. For, by eventually compelling England, Russia and France to follow a policy diametrically opposed to that of Austria, it blunted the edge of Metternich's favorite policy of intervention against Revolution, helped to break up the Quadruple Alliance and to emasculate the more nebulous Holy Alliance and to destroy the solidarity of the rulers which amounted to a conspiracy against the liberties of their subjects. Though aimed directly at the Ottoman Empire, it turned out to be the first serious blow against the oppressive regime with which Europe had been saddled by the reactionary governments after the fall of Napoleon. It was at this juncture that the Greek War of Independence broke out. Attempts at insurrection in Piedmont and in Naples were easily suppressed with the help of Austrian bayonets and liberalism everywhere seemed sunk in the exhaustion of despair. The subterranean activities of the Carbonari and the romantic gestures of German student societies did not constitute a serious menace against the forces of reaction. The resistance of the peoples of Western Europe to this stifling regime was pathetically weak. in short, registered and legitimized the triumph of Counter-Revolution. International justice was sacrificed on the altar of a false legitimacy and a deceptive peace. Of Europe were thus delivered to the tender mercies of reactionary governments and foreign despots. Social reform but even dared to tamper with the traditional civil liberties of the English people. In England itself, the triumphant Tories not only resisted the faintest velleity of political and An illusory and ephemeral autonomy was given to ![]() after a fleeting glimpse of the goal of national freedom and integration, was delivered,ĭivided and in fetters to the Bourbons, the Pope and Austria. Patriots, which had inspired the national uprising of 1813-1814 against Napoleonic tyranny, were sorelyĭisappointed. Incorrigible than ever in Spain, somewhat chastened and more reasonable in France. In the name of the principle of legitimacy, the Bourbons were restored, more Particularly the principle of nationality which, with the help of the military genius of France, had shakenĮurope to its foundations for a quarter of a century. (b) to neutralize the corrosive acids released by the revolutionary ferment, and So far as such restoration did not conflict with the interests of the victorious Powers, and (a) to restore the international order destroyed by the Revolution and Napoleon, in The decisions of the Congress of Vienna aimed, generally speaking: Prejudices and completely ignored the aspirations of their subjects. Of the rulers, the reconstruction effected by the Congress of Vienna was dictated by their interests and But since diplomacy in those days was under the exclusive control ![]() Spell of the magic words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," expected the end of the war to usher in a moreĮquitable social and international order. ![]() Wanted peace in conjunction with the restoration of the pre-Revolutionary status quo, the latter, under the Exhausted by the long struggle, rulers and peoples longed for peace. In the masterful hands of Napoleon Bonaparte the Revolution was made to serve the cause ofĮmpire and when the great conqueror was finally safely lodged on the Rock of St. Of France as to make her a more formidable menace to the rest of Europe than she had ever been under theĪncient Regime. Released by the French Revolution gave such a vitality and aggressiveness to the traditional foreign policy A brief discussion of the Greek War of Independence asĪ liberating force outside of Greece is the purpose of this article.įrom 1792 to 1815 Europe was almost continuously at war. Smaller extent, by the down-trodden social classes. Impetus, the beneficent reaction of which was felt both by the nations living under foreign rule and, to a Process of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, but it also gave to European liberalism a tremendous For it not only liberated a comer of the Greek fatherland, thus virtually inaugurating the long Of world history after an eclipse of nearly four centuries, has been recognized as an event of universal The Revolution of 1821, with which the Greek people resumed its place on the stage Kaltchas The Ahepan Magazine September 1929
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