The evening times., 1900-01-08
RESULTS OF ENGLAND's WARS.
Great Britain Has Had More Than
Any other Nation.
(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 second class which the world has
| seen in the modern age. When William,
| the Duke of Normandy, conquered England
| in 1865. overthrowing the Saxon dynasty
and starting the Norman line of monarchs
he created a feud between England 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 in
/ Europe from that day TO Waterloo seven
and a half centuries later. Some of those
! wars have altered the current of the
| worlds history from their day down to the
! present time.
BY Englands war against Spain, which
eliminated in the destruction of Philip
IPs invncible armada in 1888, Spain's
primacy among the nations ended, and her
! decline and fail dates from that event
I By the war of I651-54, during the days
when Cromwell was at the head of the
Government. waged between England and
Holland. then the greatest power in the
world, Holland was started on the down
ward course. a feud was created between
the Dutch and the English which IN one
of its manifestations, is raging today in
South Africa. and England laid the founda-
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 Q756-63) put all Of Frances
dominions in Canada and east OF the Mis-
sissppi in British hands, and wrested from
France the territory In Asia which was the /.
beginning of England's great Indian en-
pire. The war of American independence (
OF 1775-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 England's power and .
prestige ever received in the thousand
years in the life OF the English nation,
which began back in the days of Alfred the
Great.
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 and
the struggle with Russia in the Crimea la
lS54-56, in which England had France
Turkey, and Sardinia as allies. In ad-
dtion to these she has had innumerable
smaller wars, which We're principally re-
volts against her authority in one part or
another of her world empire. BY the Ma
poleOniC 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 rev.
Olution was regained.
As a consequence Of the war of 1S12-l5
with the United States England was forced
TO relinquish the right of search of vessels
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 subjection and suzerainty
TO Russia, which England established or
which she seeks now to establish in the
rransyaal. On the whole. nearly all of
wars have resulted in gains
immediate or ultimate to her. except the
wo she waged against the United States.
whether or not the war against the South
African Republic and the Orange Free
State will advance England's power and
influence is question which cannot be |
with confidence for few weeks
possibly few months, to come, but prob
lbly this Will eventually result in British
gain. ,