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ministry expected Bazaine to make a few more efforts in their behalf against the Juarists, but a telegram from Paris, of the 10th of January, 1867, instructed him to hasten the departure of the troops. His measures in accordance therewith increased the bitterness of feeling between the marshal and the court till intercourse was completely broken off. Among the strongest reasons for this rupture was the strictness with which the commander-in-chief carried out the order for returning to their homes all

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