Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-17
RESULTS OF ENGLAND's WARS.
Nearly All of Them Have Resulted I'm
British Gain
From Leslie's Weekly

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For England the gates of the Temple of
Janus are seldom closed. England has had
more wars than any other nation of the
nrst or the second class which the world
mas seen In the modern age. When Will
| lam, the Duke of Normandy. CONQUERED
England, in 1066, overthrowing the Saxon
dynasty and starting the Norman line of
monarchs, he created feud between Eng
iahd and France by melting claims on the
part Of English kings to the French crown,
which put these two countries on opposite
SIDES in nearly all the wars which ragged
III Europe from that day to Waterloo
seven and half centuries later Some of
those wars have altered the current of the
the present time
BY England's war against Spain, which
illuminated In the destruction of PhiIin IFS
lhvlnclpIe armada in 1888, Spain's primacy
among the nations ended, and her decline
ana fall dates from that event By the
war OF l6ol-4, during the days when Crom-
Wen was at the head of the government
Waged between England and Holland then
the greatest power in the world, Holland
was started on the downward course a
feud was created between the Dutch and
me English which, in one of its NANTES
tauonS, is raging today in South Africa
and England laid the foundation of its Dre-
emfnence in commerce and In naval
strength.
The conflict known in American history
as the French and Indian war which was
the new worlds extension of the seven
years war QI56-63), put all of Frances
commons in Canada and east of the Mis-
Sisslppl IN British hands and wrested from
france the territory in Asia which was the
beginning of EnSland's great Indian en-
pre-. The war of American Independence
OF lffo-S3 drove England out Of the thir-
teen colonies, by far the most valuable
part of her American domain. and was
the seVerest blow which Engiands power
and prestige ever received in the thou
sand years in the life of the English ma
fred the Great
EnSlands most important wars in the
past hundred years were those with France
which ended in 1915, that with the United
states which closed in the same year and
the struggle with Russia in the Crimea in
1S54-6, in which England had France, Tur-
key and Sardinia allies. In addition to
these, she has had innumerable smaller
wars, which We're principally revolts
against her authority in one part or other
of her world empire. By the Napoleonic
wars England, by the aid OF many other
countries, at last overthrow the great Cor
slcan, and in doing this much of the En-
SliSh prestige lost in the American reyolu-
ton was regained.
AS a consequence of the war of 1928
with the United States England was fore
ed to relinquish the right of search of YES
sells of other nations at sea, although this
was not mentioned in the treaty of Client
which brought the war to an end. The
Crimean war saved Turkey from the same
sort of ultimate subsection and suzerainty
to Russia which England established, or
which she seeks now to establish, in the
Transyaal: On the whole, nearly all of
England's wars have resulted in gains, i'm
mediate or ultimate, to her. except the two
she waged against the United States
whether or not the war against the South
African republic and the Orange Free State
Will advance Eng,and's power and influence
is a question which cannot be answered
with confidence for few weeks, possibly
a Few months, to come; but probably this
Will eventually result in British gain