All these aspirations had been denied them under Constantine, and finally, on the 17th of November, there was an open insurrection at Warsaw headed by a party of students, and pandemonium broke loose; the palace was attacked and Constantine himself barely escaped. Of course, the Emperor Nicholas could not brook such doings, and the immediately proceeded to put down the revolt. It cost a bloody war and the better part of the year to accomplish it, but when he was through there was no more Poland on the map.
This insurrection had resulted, among other things, in developing a pronounced hostility to the French who had deposed Charles X and placed Louis Philippe on the throne. The Tsar considered that the chief cause of the rebellion had been the influence of French revolutionary ideas, and he became the outspoken enemy of the Paris Government. In December, 1832, when Nicholas went to the aid of the Sultan, with a view to driving back the Egyptians who threatened Constantinople, France protested, and, in company with England, interfered, causing the withdrawal of the Russian forces and also the retreat of the Egyptian army. This interference of the Western nations led to an offensive and defensive alliance which practically made Turkey dependent upon the Tsar. In the face of the protest, however, the treaty was never executed.
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