The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-10-14
wars OF The gesaurJ.

hilfurningl over The annals Of this CEN
tary, only, NE ind that not . singie
year out, Of The. seventy which have Is
yet passed, has been one 6fentire peace.
Somewhere or other there has Always
been was, and it has been the most civ.
| ilized nations who have done by far the
greater part of the fihting. ~ l'f'n tlfH
Thus England alone has wage,i for
ty-nine waFs since 1890. of these there
have been three with Francs, two with
Russia, five with China, two With Den
waFk, two with Holland, two with
Turkey, two with Burmah, two with
Persia, one with Spain, two with Prus-
sia, one with the United States, one
with Sweden, one with Portugal, and
one with Egypt the others were with
the Peishwa, the Mahrattas, tha Great
Mogul, Nepsul, Agiers, the Wahabees,
the Fndafde4 the Asia dtees, Caiar&s,,
H0ttentots, Baers, Sikhs, Afghans, Ca
madam rebels, Paraguay, Scinde, Sepoy
mutineers, haerisy Japan and 4Abyssisl
niaa ERnces 6guressf ins tziRtN.seYon
wars, viz: Four with Austria, thne9,
with Russia, three with Prussia, Qn-
cluding the present. one,1 three with
England, four, with The Arab tribes,
two With Mexico, two with China, ltwo
with Spain, two with Holland, tW01
with Turkey, one with HPortukd, one
With Hayti, one with SwitzeslSnd, fone
with Denmark, one with Sweieu, one
with Algiers, one with M0gpcoev one|
with Paraguay 0neeWiflssI Ispa1esag1
one with the Roman Republic. !, Russia
shows , list Of twenty-one, viz: With
France three Turkey three. England
two, Poland two, Persia twoy .KhHa
two, Bokhats two, Sweden one, Hun
gary one, Egypt one China one, and
Circassia o very long and blootly'one.
Austria figures In twelve, viz: With
France five, Italy three, Prussia one,
Hungary one, Denmark one, n and
Egypt one. 4 Prussia coSaes last, with
seven, viz: With France three, Dem
mark two, Austria one, ard England
so,much for tbe leading. neg2'pos poowseary, ear,y,Fof Fof
the Old World. But to the desolatin9
wars above enumerated must be added
the numerous = fevoluti tionary move
nenfs, in Italy and SPAIN Invariably |
suppressed with great bloO(lshed; the
dynastic contests Of the Carlsts and |
Christin0s in Spain, which are not ex-
tinct yet, and OF the Miguelites and Pc
dr0ites in Portugal, all of which occa-
stoned great misery and loss of life.-,I
Then there was the war of Independ- |
ence in Greece, which lasted more than
twenty years, and was at last termin- |
ated by the intervention Of England,
France and Russia, and the battle Of |
On this continent. war has !
l,covs tho N, I,ro,,so "a ofo IF flxa E<s,fI1~vs 4
portion of it ever since the Spanish col.
onies threw off the yoke Of the mother |
country. Incessant revolutions consti-
tute the dreary history of Mexico and
the South American States but we
have not been without our troubles
We have had several Indian wars, q
war with England, one with Mexico,
and our great civil war. Cuba, HAyti |
and San Domingo, have suffered at IN
tervals from the same scourge. Brazil !
has recently concluded'a q long and cost
ly struggle with Paraguay, and, in
short, it ia difficult to call to mind q
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 reseEtcentury. 1cod 3di /
Asia has seen an enormous amount |
Of bloodshed during the past 20 years.
There have been the incessant wars
carried on by the English, In, India,
Negre and China and by the
French in Cochin, China, and AMMAN !;
also by tile Russiaps with the Circas-
slams and the wild tribes Of Central
Asia, and with Turkey and Persia /
also by the Turks with the Persians I
and the Egyptians; by the Persians
with the Beloochees, Afghans and Tar
tars; and there have been the continu-
u domestic wars smong the Afghan,
Sinh, Mahratta, and other HindOO
chiefs, for supremacy; For the first
fifteen years of this. century there was
war all over Europe, and it extended
,ven to this continent. During the
next ten years it spread all over Mexi-
70, Central and South America except
Brazil Then Asia and Africa came
n for their turn, with the French in
Algeria, the English at the Cape and I
IN the West coast, and Egypt on the
East; the Russians In Turkey and Cir
,assia; the English and the French in
india and China; this lasted for twen-
y-five years, when the scene shifted
o Europe once more, and the Crimean
var, the wars in Hungary, Italy, Dem
mark, Germany, and, lastly, France,
ave filed up the remainder of the
ime.-P Phildieiphid Ledges..