Smyrna times., 1870-09-14
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Wars of the Century.

After perusing the history of mankind, one
is almost led to the conclusion that war is the
normal state OF the race and peace the excep- :.
ton Turning over the annals of this century,
only, We find that not a single year out of the
seventy which have as yet passed has been one
OF entire peace. Somewhere or other there
has always been war, and it has been the most
civilized nations who have done by far the
greatest part of the fighting.
Thus England alone has waged forty mine
wars since 1900. OF these there have been
three with France, two with Russia, five with
China, two with Denmark, two with Holland,
two with Turkey, two with Burmah, two with
Persia, one with the United States, one with
Prussia, one with Spain, one with Sweden one
with Portugal, and one with Egypt; the others
were with the Peshaw, the Mahrattas, the
Great Mogual, Nepaul, Algiers, the Wahabees,
the Pindarrees, the Ashantees, Catfres, Hot
tentots, Baers, Sikhs, AtghaHs, canadian reb-
els, Paraguay, Scinde, Sepoy mutinecrs, Mao
ris, Japan and Abyssinia. France figures in
thirty-seven wars, viz: four with Austria, three
with Russia three with Prussia, Including the
present war;, three with England, four with
the Arab tribes, two with Mexico, two with
China, two with Spain, two with Holland, two
with Turkey, one with Portugal, one with
Hayti, one with Switzerland, one with Den
mark, one with Sweden, one with AlgierS, one
with Morocco, one with Paraguay one with
Japan, and one with the Roman republic.
Russia shows list of twenty-one wars, viz
three with france, three with Turkey, two with
England, two With Poland, two with Persia,
two with Khiva, two with Bokhara, one with
Sweden, one with China and one livery long
and bloody with CircaSSia. Austria figures ID
twelve, viz: five with France, three with Italy,
one with Prussia, one with Hungary, one with
Denmark and one with Egypt. Prussia come
last, with seven, viz: three with France, two
with Denmark, one with Austria and one with
England.
So much for the leading powers of the Ole
l World. But tO.the desolating wars above emu
merated must be added the numerous revOlu
tionary movements in Italy and Spain, inva
riably suppressed with great blOodshed; tn
dynastc contests of the Carlists and Christi
nos in Spain, which are not extinct yet, and 0
the Mignelites and Pedroites in Portugal, al
of which occasioned great misery and loss o
4 life Then there was the war Ofindependenc
\, in Greece, which lasted more than spve
years, and was at last terminated by the inter
y vention of England, France and Russia, an
= the battle of NavarlnO. On thiscontlnent wa
T e has been the chronic state of the southern POI
- ton of it ever since the Spanish colonies thre
off the yoke of the mother country. IncessaI
4 revolutions constitute the dreary history {
~ Mexico and the South American States, but "
have not been without our troubles. We hay
~ had several Indian wars, war with EnganC
one with Mexico, and our great civil war O.
ba, Hayti and San Domingo have suffered
intervals from the same scOurge. Brazil h.
recently concluded long and costly strugg
with Paraguay, and, in short, it is difficult
call to mind a single nation in the world whiC
has not been involved in war of some kind
ia. other domestic or foreign, in the course of Il
present century.
os Asia has seen an enormous amount of bloc
I Js shed during the past seventy years, The
have been the incessant wars carried on by &
English in India, Burmah, Negre and Chin
ry and by the French in Cochin China and A
nam also by the Russians with the Circassia
ana the wild tribes of Central Asia, and wi
Turkey and Persia also by the Turks with
Persians aud the Egyptians; by the Persian
with the BeloOchees, Atghans, and Tartars; a
there have been the continual domestic wa
among the Afghan, Sikh, Mahratta and 9th
Hindoo chiefs, for supremacy. For the III
the fifteen years of this century there was war
the over Europe, and it extended even to this &C
tinent. During the next ten years 1t spre
/, to all over Mexico, Central and South Amer
pu- Iexcepting Brazil). Then Asia and Afr
came in for their turn, with the French in
'iPt geria, the English at the Cape and on the W
ain Coast and Egypt on the east the Russians
Turkey and Circassia the English and I
we French in India and China; this lasted
twenty-five years, when the scene shifted
Europe once more, and the Crlmean war,
wars in Hungary, Italy, Denmark, German
and lastly, France, have filled up the remain
er of the PhilddelphiG Ledger.
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