Luis Henrique

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At a purely practical level, a striking aspect of the Congress of Vienna is how backward-looking some of the participants were when trying to forge a secure future. Castlereagh’s almost obsessive preoccupation with securing Belgium and the Scheldt estuary, which he shared with most of his cabinet, derived from a three-hundred-year-old fear of invasion which had grown entirely out of date.
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna
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