The evening times., 1900-01-08
RESULTS OF ENGLAND's WARS.
Great Britain Has Had More Than
Any other Nation.


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
I seen In the modern age. When William,
/ the Duke Of Normandy, conquered England
I In 1865, overt hrowing the Saxon dynasty
and starting the Norman line OF mOuarchs
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 10 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
lis invinCible armada in 1855 Spain 8
pTimaCy among the nations ended, and her
decline and fall dates from that event.
By the war Of l65l-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. n one
of its manifestations, is raging today in
South Africa. and England laid the founda-
tiOn Of its pre-eminence in commerce and
IN naval strength.
The conflict known I'm 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
dominiOus 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 en-
pire. The war Of American independence
Of l1i5-63 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 IN
lS54-56, in which England had France
Turkey, and Sardinia as allies In ad-
ditiOn 10 these she haS had inuumerabIe
smaller wars, which were principally re-
volts against her authority in one part or
another OF her world empire. By he Ma
poleOuic wars England, by the aid Of many
other countries. at last overthrew 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 1S12-15
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
10 Russia, which England established, or
which she seeks now 10 establish, in the
Transvaal. On the whole nearly all Of
England's wars have resulted in gains
immediate or ultimate. 10 her. except the
two she waged against the United States
Whether OF not the war against the South
African Republic and the Orange Free
State will advance England's power and
influence Is a question which cannot be
answered with confidence for few weeks,
possibly few months, TO come but prob
ably this VIII eventually result in British
gain.