Princeton university press copyright @ 1982 by princeton university press published by princeton university press, 41 william st. Y press, guildford, surrey all rights reserved library of Ò€¦ After an almost three-year conflict (1853-6) first opposing russia to the ottoman empire, then supported by france, britain, sardinia, austria and hungary, belligerents drafted peace conditions.

Success or failure in this war depends on our reaching a decision about it sooner than Ò€¦ Austria was to cede venetia in return for the destruction of italian unity and for compensation in germany (silesia), and she was to assign galicia to a reconstructed poland for compensa- tion in Ò€¦ The first to act were the members of the league of the three emperors germany, austria-hungary and russia, whose common attitude toward the eastern question was embodied in the andrassy note Ò€¦