The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1896-01-30
Time FOR WAR ARRIVED
Close and Beginning Of Centuries a.
ways Marked With Bloodshed.
WILL HISTORY AGAIN REPEAT ITSELF?
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cited dispute between the British and thu
German governments should finally cnl-
inmate in q war, there would be no great
reason for surprise; for 1t generally hap
pens that each century begins and ends
in war of some worldwide importance.
This has been shown 30 often in history
since the medieval epoch that one
might almost take for granted the exist
ence of some law which decreed that
about the end of each century a great
war should be waged. While, of course,
there is no such law, there does seem to
be in history tendency to epoch making
| events in science, in politics, in art, 10
music or even in religions movements
about once every 100 years. The chill
dren of great men do not seem to accom-
plish much; but the grandchildren OF
greatgrandchildren repeat the deeds of
their ancestors. Admitting the existence
OF atavism, the occurrence of great events
century apart does not seem to be en-
trely the work OF tickle chance.
AT all events, there can be few things
more firmly established In past history
than the fact that when a century closes
or new century opens there will be
noted an important war. Away back in
the middle ages this fact was to have
been noted. The eleventh century, as
will be noted at once, closed with the
capture OF Jerusalem, In the first crusade
which began in 1895. The second cru
SADIE accomplished less fortunate result.
Jerusalem was lost in 1887, and although
once again the chivalry of Europe, in
Guiding Richard of England, went to
fight the Turks as 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 desperate conflict be-
tween Christian and painim forces; but
the crusadss were ended for all time by
the capture OF Acre; and before another
century had passed the nations that had
undertaken the crusade together were
fighting among themselves. The four
tenth century tclosed with the wars in
England and the accession of Henry ",
and early in the fifteenth century the Bit
ter war between France and England
broke out. The discovery of Columbus
took the fancy of the fighting men, who
hurried to the new countries on adven-
turous expeditions; but the Cambray
league war against Venice closed the Gen.
fury, and early in the next century, or
about 1913, the well-known battle of the
"ield of the spurs" at Guinegate and the
bloodier battle of Flodden field took
place.
Toward the close of the sixteenth CEN
fury 1t 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 Navarro and
the league was being most bitterly waged,
in the memory OF the st. Bartholomew
massacre. In far-off Croatia 65 900 Chris
tians were being slaughtered by the
Turks. The religious wars OF Europe
were most fiercely wsged at this time,
and early in the seventeenth century the
wars of Germany we're begun, to bring
such soldiers as lilly, Gustavus Adolf
plus and Wallenstein into prominence.
On the high seas the gentlemen adven-
turers" and buccaneers started upon their
careers, which later degenerated into
downright piracy.
1t was about century later that the
pirates reached the height of their career,
and only few years after the capture of
Panama and Carthagena the buccaneer
confederacy was broken up and the pi-
rates were hunted down. 1t was near the
close OF the seventeenth century also that
the Polish king, Sobieski, saved Vienna
and stayed the Turkish advance into Eu
rope. 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 and
general scene of miitarism which at last
brought to the front one central figure,
Napoleon, whose meteoric career was
practically begun with that OF the nine
tenth century.
Canterbury Tales.