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The Rothschilds: The Financial Rulers of Nations

John Reeves — Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1887 (A London edition by Sampson Low was published the same year. DjVu text from the University of Toronto collection on the Internet Archive).

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  1. Preface: Prides itself on "complete and impartial truth." Chapter I is a chapter of apology, discussing the persecution of the Jews and their contributions in law, music, mathematics, and commerce.
  2. pp. 86–87: "The fall of Napoleon was the rise of Rothschild." States that he learned of the defeat at Waterloo "much sooner" than the public via a courier and "bought on a gigantic scale," resulting in profits of "unprecedented magnitude."
  3. p. 95: Repeats that the house knew the news of Waterloo "several days before the public were informed."
  4. pp. 168–169: States that he had his own network of agents and couriers faster than the government's, an organization of carrier pigeons ("spent enormous sums on the pigeons"), was the first to inform Lord Aberdeen of the July Revolution in Paris, and was also the first to report the defeat at Waterloo.
  5. pp. 169–173: Nathan goes to the battlefield and watches from a high point, travels to Brussels after dark, then to Ostend on the morning of June 19. After being refused passage for 500, 600, and 800 francs, a fisherman agrees to cross the stormy Channel for 2,000 francs. He arrives in Dover in the evening and stands by his pillar at the Exchange the next day, looking "crushed and heartbroken."
  6. pp. 174–175: A rumour that Blücher's 117,000 Prussian troops had been defeated at Ligny caused government funds to plummet. While his known agents sold openly, his secret agents bought, and he "pocketed nearly a million pounds."
  7. p. 185: An anecdote about another banker who lent 1.5 million against Consols (at 84) as collateral, then bought them out after driving the price down to 74. p. 190: States it was his common practice to have one set of agents sell while another set bought.

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