[90] Roo-ong´, chief cotton port of France, on the Seine, 87 miles by rail north-west of Paris.
[91] Bor-do´, port of France, on the Gironde, 60 miles from the sea; the great wine-exporting port.
[92] River of Germany, tributary of the Rhine, which it enters at Mainz.
[93] (1808-73). Son of Louis Napoleon, brother of Napoleon I. He was elected President of the French Republic in 1848, and on December 2, 1852, after he had overthrown the Government by armed force, was proclaimed emperor as Napoleon III.
[94] Krī´me-a, peninsula of Southern Russia, in which the British, French, and Turks fought the Russians (1854-6).
[95] Watering-place of Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, 11 miles by rail east of Coblenz (at the confluence of the Rhine and its tributary the Moselle).
[96] Called the mitrailleuse (me-trah-yuse).
[97] Fortified town of Lorraine, on the Moselle.
[98] Body of troops kept in hand to be called up when needed.
[99] That branch of the army which handles the big guns.