The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-23
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than the fact that when century closes
or Il new century opens there VIII De
noted an important war. Away back
in the middle ages this fact was 10
have been noted. The eleventh CEN
fury. as Will be noted at once. closed
with the capture of Jerusalem. in the
first crusade, which began in 195. The
second crusade accomplished less for
tunate result Jerusalem was lost in
1877. and. although once again the
chivaIry of Europe, including Richard
of England. went TO fight the Turks, "a
the twelfth century closed, even the
capture of COnStantinople in 1903 did
not make the crusades of that time
success.
The close of the thirteenth century
was also marked by a desperate con-
fiict between Christian and painim
forces: but the crusadeS were ended for
all time by the capture Of Acre. and be-
fore another century passed the nations
that had undertaken the crusadeS We're
fighting among themselves The four
teenth century closed with the wars in
England and the accession of Henry
". and early in the fifteenth century
the bitter war between France and Eng
land broke out. The discovery Of Co
lumbus took the fancy of fighting men.
who hurried 10 the new countries on
on adventurous expeditions; but the
Cambray league war against Venice
closed the century. and early in the
next century. or about 1913, the well
known battle of the field of spurs" at
Guinegate. and the blOodier battle Of
Flodden Field took place.
Toward the close of the sixteenth cen
fury il seemed as If all the world were
fighting. About twelve years before
the century closed, the Spanish armada
came TO grief A few years later. in
France. the fight between Henry of Ma
varre and the league was being most
bitterly waged, in the memory of the
St. Bartholomew massacre. In far or
NTtdlld OO,utU NHIlSlIdIS NCAC bNAA-
slaughtered by Turks. The religious
wars of Europe were most fiercely wag-
ed at this time, and early in the seven
teenth century the wars of Germany
were begun, TO bring such soldiers as
Tilly, GustavuS Adolphus and Wallen-
stein into prominence. on the high
seas the gentlemen Adventures and
buccaneers started upon their careers,
which later degenerated into down
right piracy.
1t was about century later that the
pirates reached the height of their
career. and only a few years after the
capture of Panama and Carthagen the
buccaneer cOnfederacy was broken up
and the pirates were hunted down. 1t
was near the close of the seventeenth
century also that the Polish king. So
bieski. saved Vienna and stayed the
Turkish advance into Europe. The
campaigns of Marlboro against the
great French king and those of Peter
the Great against the Swedish were
among the great military events OF the
age. About a century later came the
war of the American revolution, the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Poland, the French
revolution. and general scene of mill
tarism which at last brought to- the
front one central figure, Napoleon,
whose meteoric career was practically
begun with that of the ninteenth cen
fury.
At this time there is no such general
unrest as was 10 be seen a century ago.
The awful savagery and butchery of
the French revolution are never TO be
repeated. it is to be hoped. The great
British colonies like Canada and Aus
tralia. show no pressing desire TO revolt
against the mild British rule. Yet II
would be a strange exception To the
general trend of history if there should
be no great or important war within the
very near or the immediate future. If
the epoch which closes the ninteenth
and opens the twentieth century should
be free from the clash of arms, it would
be practically unique in the world 5
history.