The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-19
RESULTS OF ENGLAND's wars.
Nearly All of Them HIVE Resulted in
n British Gain.
From Leslie's weekly


For England the gates of the Temple OF
Janus are seldom closed. England has had
more wars than any other nation of the
first or the second class which the world
has seen In the modern age. When Will
liam, the Duke of Normandy, conquered
England in 1866. overthrowing the Saxon
dynasty and starting the Norman line of
monarchs, he created a feud between Eng
land and France by melting claims on the
part of English kings 80 the French
crown. which put these two countries on
opposite sides in nearly all the wars which
ragged In Europe from that day to Water
loo seven and a half centuries later Some
of those wars nave altered the current OF
the worlds history from their day down
10 the present time
BY Englands war against Spain, which
eliminated in the destruction of Philip rs
invincible armada in 1888, Spains primacy
among the nations ended, and her decline
and fall dates from that event BY the
war of 1651-4, during the days when Crom-
we'll 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
the English which, in one of its NANTES.
tations, Is raging to-day in South Africa
and England laid the foundation of its
pre-e minence 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 Q756-60 put all of Frances
dominions in Canada and east of the Mis-
sissippi In British hands and wrested from
France the territory in Asia which was
the beginning of England's great Indian
empire. The war of American indepenc-
ence of 1883 drove England out of the
thirteen colonies by far the most valua-
BILE part of her American domain. and was
the severest blow which England's power
and prestige ever received In the thou
sands years In the life of the English ma
ton, which began back in the days of Al
fred the GreDt.
England's 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 arp the struggle with Russia in the
Crimea I'm 1876 in which England had
France, Turkey and Sardinia as allies In
addition to these, she has had innumera-
Bile smaller wars, which were prime pally
revolts against her authority in one part
or other of her world empire. BY the
Napo1eonic wars England, by the aid OF
many other countries at last overthrow
the great Corsican. and in doing this
much of the English prestige lost in the
American revolution was regained.
As a consequence of the war of 1Sl2-15
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 ,.le
Transvaal. On the whole, nearly all or
Englands wars have resulted in gains,
two she waged against the United States.
Whether or not the war against the South
African republic and the Orange Free
State win advance Englands power ami
influence is a question which cannot be
answered with confidence for few weeks
possibly a few months, to come; but prob
ably this will eventually result in British
gain.