For the Russian Campaign in 1812, Napoleon took 14,000 troops from the Kingdom of Holland, which ended in disaster, with only a small number of the initial troops from Holland returning. ... This then led to the Dutch welcoming the methods of the Prussians and Russians, rather than following French rule. By doing this, Napoleon would fail as being seen as a liberator following the arrival of Prussian and Russian rule in 1813. ... In order to gain troops, Napoleon made vague promises of potential independence for Poland away from Austria, Prussia and Russia. ... For the 1812 campaign in which t...

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In Western European history, the majority of tensions have primarily been between Germany and France, dating back to the Napoleonic War of the early 19th Century, and followed by the Franco-German War of 1870, and the two World Wars of the 20th Century. ...

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In Immigration and the Imagined Community in Europe and the United States, Citrin states "It appears that the long history of ethnic and religious diversity in the United States has produced a distinctive, and more favorable, orientation toward cultural heterogeneity" (Citrin 37). ... Ethnic diversity is, on balance, an important social asset, as the history of my own country demonstrates" (Putnam 138). ...

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