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Show BERLIN OFTEN TAKEN GERMAN CAPITAL FOUR TIMES OCCUPIED DY ENEMY. Moit Sever Blow W During tjia Thirty Yer' War Capturad by tha Auatrlana In 1757 Whan Napoleon Entered. Of tho capitals of tho nations now at war in Europe, Berlin, In times pastj has suffered most at the bands or io'A clgn troops. i In all warfare tho capital of tho, (country Invaded Is usually the obJc.ct ljro of tho hostile action. Our own ca ital at Washington suffored at tho hands of tho Ilrltlsh in tho war of 1812. Slnco 1448 IJerlln has been tho seat of tho Hohenzollorns nnd has boon occupied occu-pied four tlmos by tho forces of an Invading In-vading enemy. During the Thirty years' war tho city wob practically razed to tho ground. About ono hundred years later, la-ter, In 17C7, it was taken by the Aus-trlans. Aus-trlans. Thoy did no harm to tho city, ns they received a ransom of 1,000,000, tbalers about $1,135,000. At tho end of tho disastrous Jena, campaign tho capital of Germany foil Into tho hands of the French In 1806, It was occupied by the troops of Napoleon Na-poleon for two years. When Prussia and Russia allied in 1812 Berlin was again taken by the "Llttlo Corporal"! and was held for a year. Next to Berlin Paris has suffered, most at the hands of hostile troops. In March, 1814, the allied armies which had opposed Napoleon took the capital of France and held It for two months. A year later, at tho end of tho Hundred Days, tho city again fell. Into tho hands ot, the enemy. The Germans wero anxious to blow up the Arch de Trlomphe, which celebrated cele-brated tho viqtory of tho French at Jena, but tho llrltsh wero opposed to It and saved tho arch. After a long siege by thoGcrmanb in 1870 Paris was again occuped by hostile hos-tile troops'. This tlmo much damago was done to tho city. Many of tho principal prin-cipal buildings wero destroyed or burned, and for several months tho fortifications around tho city wero held by the kaiser's soldiers. Since It became the capital of England, Eng-land, London has never been occupied by foreign troops, nor even has been threatened by them. It was held by Danish and Itoman Invaders before England, as a nation, came Into existence. exist-ence. But Blnce tho tlmo of the Normans Nor-mans the English capital has never been threatened. Before the present struggle Brussels had not been held by foreign troops, as the Integrity of Belgium was preserved pre-served In tho struggle of 1870. St. Petersburg, or Petrograd, as It Is now called, has been" too far removed from tho center of activities in European Euro-pean warfaro to have suffered at tho hands of an Invading enemy. Moscow has been tho objective point ot troops Invading Russia. In 1571 and 1591 It was taken by tho Tartars ottho Crimea and destroyed. In 1812 Napoleon Napo-leon mado It tho object ot his invasion of Russia and aided In its destruction, although tho Russians themselves had dono much to destroy tho city betoro tho cnomy arrived. |