Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-08-08

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Isis interesting te note he number
% uaEa the British have been engaged
10 daring the past caatufy. i y only
By aunh q rsYioW ihat we cen reach
Esallxine sense d che unparalleled war
ike force whinh has aarFiad them ta 90
many helda Of vi1toTy. TIE ancient
Ramans had q tempIes the sample Of
Jnnaa. which vas shuf h tins Of peace
and opau IN time o. var. Daring seven
hundred years Of Roman history g VS.
shut aniy foar times, and Wouid hardly
have besn shut oiteneg had Is been ID
Great Britain instead % Roma.
One hundred years ago Britain vas
q paaoo, The undergraduates Of the
Uniied States had been recognized, and
Z paaee ratohed 40 with Francs. spain
ard Holland. ID India . psaes had
been made with The redoubtabls 1ippoo
Sahib. THIS desirapie state Of ahairs
lasted bnt . short tine. IN 1850 the
var with Tippoo was Foneued, AID IS
was ueaFIy thirty years before Britain
knew What Il was 20 be e. peaee with
She whole world. A generation Of men
was born. grew up, and advanced veil
towards middle life wAo DID not r.
member q time when thaiF e0antFy vas
not a. var Iippoo vas not disposed
Of on shia occasion untfi after his de-
feat at Seringapatam 10 l7S2. The
name year saw The beginning Of the
loua var with Francs, q var which
lasted, With two eh0rt breathing spolls,
aBtii after tho battle o. Waterloo. Into
this terrible war every European nation
waa eventually draaRed, on one aide OF
the other. Il 1888 the British wars at
var with tho Datoh, Who had fallen an
der French indnenoe. In l1a5 they we're
Denmark and Rdssla. The latter ooun-
Try made peace vita Britain after the
dsaih Of Emperor Paul Ia 1901. The
result Of these vars with Gte4s Britain
Was the utter ruin of the laval powtT
Of France. Spain. Holland aad Den
mark; the French lost Ss3 ships Of var,
Of which us we're line Of hattle ehipa;
the Bpaniards losl 9lS, the Datch 50
aud the Danes Ga. In these wars the
British captured from their enemies or
destroyed 207 line Of battle ships, s.
frigntea aud sb2 smaller vessels 81 var
The peace Of Amiens made with France
IN March. 1909, eanssd q cessation Of
hoatilities for foaFtoen months IL Eu-
repe bat 10 the meantime the British
had been kept busy 10 India. War with
fippo had broken out again il l79o,
but the great son Of Hyder Ali vas kill
cd the saHe year, and the following year
the Casnatie vas conquered. TIE war
with the MahEattas commenced in 1902,
nd lasted. gith QUE truce of oonaf der
alba length, until 1878, wheB they we're
ina Il snbdaed. The var With Mopaul
e0mnanced In 1914 and lasted 4 year,
and the klHdaree war vas waaed In
i6lT-te. Tha var with the Omitted States
Of America commenced Ia Juna, 1919,
and did not end nutii the beginnina Of
1919. Altogether Great Britain @aa en
gagged In more than twenty different wars
With ten different nations aud peoples
frem 100 20 lsto. THIS without c0unt-
INK The bombardment and deatruettsn
~ that ness Of pirates, AlgisEa. 10 1916.
The hrat var with Barmah oammeneed
10 1888 and ended IN 1856. II 1913 the
kaiirs we're 90 var with tbs British, and
again IN 1881. Ia 1882 there vas war
With ths haiah Of CooFe. ending with
the Annexa len Of HE territory tso years
later. The drst var With China began
vas var AGAIN With The Chlnese n 1877.
II the meantlme the Afghan var bad
broken out II 1888 and did not end until
1872 Ihe Sain q var beRan In iSt3,
tho Gwalinr sar In ictA and the Ska
war IN the same year. u ended Ia iSt9
With the annexation Of tie Punish 10
India. TIE aecund var with Burmak
commenscd 10 1851 and closed h 1853.
AZ lhe same me second var with ths
hniira vas being carried ca, Which a.
"a about the ssma time. IL 1854 Great
Britain uent 10 ~ With Rasaia, and
peace vas not brought ahaat until iHi5
Thai rear ebe vent b var eith Persia
and Chtna. and Wills il lhe middle d
these coaiests vas called upou 10 face
The India mutiny. Ibrse vars e once
vas rather niore than enoaRh. TheW
with Per IA VS. concluded 10 1857, thai
with China IN 1855. and ne Indian mn
tiny Quellsd u iS1a Inc British we're
again AZ var with China Ia issQ. bal the
contest closed the sane rear with the
capture % Pakin. IL 1860 there vas
var with the Maoris Of NaW Zealand,
which did noG end until fsg6. Ia is6S
there Vas = stats Of var With japan.
In tcS& there was war with Ahvesinia.
aud MAgdAla was eApiursd. In Isls
the war vita tha King ef AshaBiee
ended IN TIE deatrnetion q bic e2pilai,
Ncauassie.
Il Il hardly necessary % relate Tie
mere resent wars, which are fresh il
the nemofy q eNeFyoae. Tbs var With
tee hAihrs. With The xaias. and With tha
patea ~ ne TFanEvaai 10 Ssatk Africa;
Tue var With She AfghAos. tie var With
Arab IN Egypt. the conlesz IL ne Sou.
dan, and nRAily TIE last successful var
sith Barmah, which has enaed il TIE
annsxation Of the wkole al that coantry
20 TIE British crown. NathtaR has been
Ssid ~ caniesis with TIE Hi tribes IN
india uAiee are frsqaent, q q petty
QaaRFtiN whieh call faE tha aeRxfrea 81