St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-06
WARS BEGIN THE CENTURIES.
Nearly All the Great Conflicts Have
Commenced With Such Epochs.

II the present excited dispute between the
aM ana the German governments should
anauy culminate In war there would be no
great reason for surprise; for 1t generally
happens that each century begins or ends in
war OF some worldwide Importance. saws
the boston Advertiser. This has been shown
so otten In history since the medieval epoch
mat one might almost take for granted the
existence OF some law which decreed thar
a sh',!s the end OF each century great war
should be waged. While of course. there ia
no such law, there does seem to be in history
a tendency to epoch-making events In science
IN poltics, In art. In music even In relig-
aous movements about once every 100 wears
me children of great men do not seem to
accomplish much; but the grandchildren or
ereassrahdchildren repeat the deeds OF their
ancestors. Admitting the existence OF atav
Ism, the occurrence of great events a cen
fury apart does not seem to be entirely the
work OF tickle chance ~
AT all events, there can be few tbinpa mora
n s established In past history than the
Iact when century closes or a new centnry
4 a~a h mere VIII be noted an important war
away pack In the middle ages this fact was
" nave Deem noted. The eleventh century
as Will be noted at once closed with the ca1
b baee Oh Jerusalem In the first crusade, which
D1sdn III iO5o me second crusade pccom-
phshed a less fortunate result. JsrrsaIan,
was lost In 1fS7, and although once again tn
land En ot Europe including Richard OF Eng
land, went to fight the Turks as the twelfth
teSsntury closed. even the capture of Constan
uhopie In l2O3 did not make the crusadps OF
tnat time a success. VI
The close of the thirteentI cart,,-,, .a.-,
H n9 by desperate conflict between Chris
tlans and painim forces; but the crnsades
k scre e emo for all time by the capture Of
acre; and before another century bad passed
the nations that had undertaken the crpsaSes
I0setner were fighting among themseIvas
a. me fourteenth century closed with the wars
III I1hsiahd ana the accession OF Henry ~
anu early In the fifteenth century the bitter
war between France and England broka ont
Inc discovery OF Columbus took the fancy of
the hghting men. who hurried to the new
countries on adventurous expeditions. but the
Canbray league war against Venice closed the
o Gentry and early In the next century. or
Heid OF the spurs" at Guinegate and the blood
Ter battle of Flodden field took place.
:. toward the close OF the sixteenth century
II seemed as II all the world were fohtino
About twelve years before the century closed
the Spanish armada came to grief A few
y Years. later, In France. the fight between
most bitterly waged, in the memory of the St
bartholomew massacre. In far off Croatia
90 oOo christians were being slaughtered by
the Turks. The religious wars az Eu,ona
were most flercely waged at this fine ana
early In the seventeenth century the wars Of
Germany were begun, to bring such soldiers
as as. lily. Gustavus AdolphuS and Walenstein
INTO iI prominence. On the high seas the gen
Iemen adventurers" and buccaneers started
upon their careers, which later deeenerated
into downright piracy.
IL was about q century later that the njratas
reached the height of their career and only
a rev years after the capture of Panama and
Sarthagena the buccaneer confederacy was
proken up and the pirates were hunted down.
1t was near the close Of the seventeenth CEN
fury also that the Polish king, sobieski, saved
Vienna and stayed the Turkish advance into
Europe. The campaigns OF Marlborough
against the great French king and those of
Peter the Great against the Swedish were
among the great military events of the age
About century later came the war of the
American revolution, the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
roland, the French revolution and a general
scene OF militarisa, which at last brought TO
the front one central figure. Napoleon, whose
meteoric career was practically begun with
that of the nineteenth century