The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-23
WAR ENDS EVERY CENTURY.
History of the World Sin &c Year 1000
Shows a Series of Conflicts.

Boston Journal.
1t is at least a curious fact, however lit
tie real significance it may have, that reg
ularly since and including the close of the
eleventh century each cycle OF a hundred
years has been completed with a blaze of
wars. In nearly every instance they were
conflicts of Importance and had decided
bearing on the woe or welfare of mankind.
They say history repeats itself, and II 1t
does the nineteenth century will be but fol-
lowing a precedent that is 500 years old
should it, too, end amid the roar of cannon.
At the close of the tenth century there
WAS comparative peace among the European
peoples, or as near peace as ever existed in
those troublous times There were some
minor struggles, to be sure, but they were
rather in the way of organized brigandage
than real warfare. throne or two made
up the booty for which the highwaymen
contended. and the Danes were massacred
in England in 1902, but otherwise the sunset
of the old era and the dawn of the new
were unaccompanied by storm; What yig-
orous warfare was carried on did not affect
Europe, because it resulted from the first
invasion of India by Mahmoud of Ghuzhi
in 1901
But with the close of the eleventh century
not only did the crusade begin, but Robert,
duke of Normandy, made war on his broth
err, Henry /, and invaded England, and SO
the last half decade of the eleventh century
was signalized by strife that was bounded
on the one hand by Jerusalem and on the
other by London
In 1895 a series of general wars began with
the successes of the Moors over Alfonso the
Noble King of CASTLE, and the opening of
rope, the struggle for supremacy between
the Geulphs and the Ghibellines, Pope limo
cent III summoned Europe to a new cru
SADIE. and that added to the general uproar
A fourth crusade was inaugurated in 1901
and Philip Augustus Wrested one French
province after another from King John of
England.
The war dance OF the end of the thir-
teenth century began with an invasion Of
England by Philip the Fair and John Bal
liol, and the Scots, under Wallace, supple
mented this with a dash of fighting on their
own account.
The French invaded Flanders at the same
time, 1897, and Albert of Austria, son of
Rudolph of Hapsburg, took up arms for the
Adophus of Nassau. The Genoese did
little naval fighting with the Venetians,
and Boniface VIII had a successful bout
was rising in Flanders against the
French, and in the next year Edward /
completed his conquest of the Scotch. So
the fourteenth century began noisily
enough.
To jump forward to the end of this CEN
fury we find the Turks and Hungarians
fighting and Ladislas fighting for Naples
with Louis II of Anjou Owen Glendower
is leading. revolt of the Welsh and the
Bajazet. and all these troubles are happen
ing in the last four years of the fourteenth
century and the first two of the fifteenth
The sixteenth begins quite as hopefully.
CHARLES VII conquers Naples and Ferdinand
II RECEIVERS 1t. Perkin Warbeck signalizes
the death of the old era in England by back
ing his pretentions to the throne with arms
The French conquer Milan and Macmillan
OF Or Germany makes war on the Swiss. Louis
practically, is in trouble.
The next century is near it's beginning
W VInel1. Howard and Essex capture Cadiz.
SMaurlce of Nassau also takes rap at the
Spaniards, and Elizabeth sends Essex to
ireland to put down the insurrection under
the Earl of Tyrone.
Sigismund Vasa is driven out of Sweden
and the French invade Savoy Maurice of
Nassau defeats Albert of Austria, and so
again we ind Europe warning from Ireland
to sweden, and south to Austria
AT the close of the seventeenth century
there was particularly warn time. VILE
rol Fought William III in the Netherlands.
savoy nnfShed on war with France Peter
the Great took .Azov from the Turks and
the French captured Barcelona.
The forces. of Leopold l under Prince
Eugene of Savoy annihilated the Turkish
army at Zenta, and the Strelitzes revolted
in Russia and in 100 Russia Poland and
Denmark entered into joint war against
great war of Spanish succession. which in
volved nearly all Europe, began in 17Ol.
The close Of the eighteenth century
brought the French conquest of Holland
instructions in Paris. the French invasion
of Germany, a successful campaign by the
Austrlans, the earlier victories of Bona
the campaigns of 1896 against Austria and
Germany: a declaration of war against
England by Spain.
During the last three years of this CEN
fury Europe trembled under the shock of
the earlier Napoleonic wars and there was
the great rebellion in Ireland. The English
stormed Ser1ngapatam and in 1901 came the
war between Tripoli and the United States
Is the close of the nineteenth century and
the coming in of the twentieth to be the
exceptional period of 500 years? Will If he
marked by peace or by wars resulting from
the prospective partition of China, the proc
lamation of Cuban Republic, and any one
of score of contingencies which NAV loose
the dogs of war before the new era dawns9
The precedents of history hint at war