Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-09-29
Wars Of the Century.

Turning over the annals OF this century.
only, we lind that not 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 1t
has been the most civilized nations who
have done by far the greater part OF the
fighting.
Thus England alone has wsged forty
nine wars eince 1900. OF these there
have been three with France. two with
Russia, five with China, two with Den
mark, two with Holland, two with Tur-
KEY, two with BurmAh, two With Persia,
one with Spain, two with Prussia, one
with the United States, one with Sweden,
one with Portugal, and one with Egypt;
the others were with the Peishwa, the
Mahra,tes, the Great Mogul, Neparl, Al
giers, the Wahabees, the Pindarrees, the
Ashantees, Caffres, Hottentots, Baers,
Sikhs, Afgsns, Canadian rebels, Paraguay,
Scinde, Sepoy mutineers, Maoris, Japan
and Abyssinia. France figures in thirty.
seven wars, viz: -Four with Austria,
three with Russia, three with Prussia, lin.
GLIDING the present wary, three with Eng
land, 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 Denmark, one with
Sweden, one with Algiers, one with Mo.
rocco, one with Paraguay, one with
Japan, and one with the Roman Repub.
lic 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 Bokhars, one with Sweden, one
with Hungary, one with Egypt one with
China, and one livery long and bloody,
with Circassia. Austria fguresin twelve,
viz: Five with France, three with Italy,
one with Prussia, one with Hungary, one
with Denmark, and one with Egypt.
Prussia comes last, with seven, viz. !:
Three with France, two with Denmark,
one with Austria, and one with England.
So much for the leading powers OF tn
Old World. But to the desOlating wars
above enumerated must be added the
numerous revolutionary movements in
Italy and Spain, invariably suppressed with
great bloodshed; the dynastic contests OF
the Carlists and Christmas in Spain,
which are not extinct yet, and of tn
Miguelites and Pedroites in Portugal, all
of which occasional great misery and
loss of life. Then there was the war of
Independence in Greece, which lasted
more than twenty years, and was
at last terminated by the interven-
ton of England, France, and Rus
STA, and the battle of Navarino.
On this continent war has been the
chronic state of the southern portion Of it
ever since the Spanish colonies threw off
the yoke of the mother country. Inces-
SAINT revolutions constitute the dreary
history of Mexico and the South Ameri-
can States, but we have not been without
our troubles. We have had several In.
dian wars, q war with England, one with
Mexico, and ertEs great civil civil WEI. tuna,
Hayti and San Domingo have suffered al
intervals from the pame scourge. Brazil
has recently concluded long and costly
struggle with Paraguay, and, in short, it is
difficult to call To mind a single nation in
the world which has not been involved in
war of some kind or other, domestic or
foreign, in the course of the present cen.
tary.
Asia has seen on enormous amount of
bloodshed during the past 10 years. There
have been the incessant wars carried On
by the English in Indis, Burmsh, Negre,
and China and by the French in Cochin
China and AMMAN also by the Russians
with the Circassians and the wild tribes
of Central Asia, and with Turkey and
Persia; also by the Turks with the Per.
SLAMS and the Egyptians; by the Persians
with the Beloochees, Afghans, and Tar.
tsrs and there have been the continual
domestic wars among the Afghan Sikh,
Mahratta, and other Hin6oo chiefs, for
supremacy. For the first fifteen years of
this century there was war ell over Eu.
rope, and it extended even to this conti-
nent. During the next ton years 1t spread
all over Mexico, Central and South Amer
lea Excepting BraziD Then Asia and
Africa came in for their turn, with the
French in Algeria, the English ct the
Cape and on the west coast, and Egypt
on the East. the Russians in Turkey and
Circsssia; the English and tbs French in
India and China this lasted for twenty
five years when the scene shifted to Eu-
rope once more, and the Criirean war, the
wars in Hungary, Italy, Denmark, Ger
many, and, lastly, France have filled up
the remainder Of the time.-Phsladelphta
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