New-York tribune., 1901-01-06
A WAR FOR EVERY YEAR.
SOME OF THE GREATEST IN ALL HISTORY INCLUDED IN
THE LAST CYCLE OF S7ORM AND STRESS

oution of Frankfort, the beginning of the Carl
ist wars. revolution in Portugal with British
aid and the Russo-Turksh treaty of Unkiar
Skeessi. Peace with Abd-e-Kader and in Por-
tug6l was next effected, to be followed in 1885
by renewed war with tie Algerian chief, the
second Seminole War. the Texan revolution and
the Great Trek of the Beers
The storming of the Alamo, Louis Napoleon's
Strasburg fiasco and Espartero's triumph
the Carists took place in 1896. and the next
year saw wars in the Caucasus, the Persian
siege of Herat and instructions in Canada.
The British-Indian Government in 1888 began its
war against Dost MOhammed. .Ameer of Cabul.
In 1899 Turkey made furious but disastrous
on Egypt and then proclaimed the Hatti-Sherf
OF Culnare Russia met with success in the
Caucasus and with utter disaster in her attack
upon Khiva, and the British occupied Cabul.
In 1S4O the first Carlist war ended. but Maria
Cristina had to leave Spain. resigning her power
10 Espartero The European Powers inter
vened to drive the Egyptians back from Syria,
and the British opium war with China began
feace between Egypt and Turkey followed, the
Dardanelles closed against ships of
and the Afghan chiefs rose against and mas
sacred the British invaders.
The fatal British retreat from Cabul, the Brit
ish annexation of Natal and the submission of
China to Great Britain in the Treaty of Nan
king and cession of Hong-Kong were the chief
incidents of 1912. NarvaeZ's revolution in Spain.
the expulsion of King otho of Greece and
lowed in 1S43. and the final conquest of Algeria
and the Bandera revolt in Italy in 1914. The
Russian in the Caucasus the French and
British war against the Argentine dictator,
Rcsas. and the first Sikh War filled 1S45 Then.
leo. a Portuguese revolution. a rising and ruth
less crushing of the Poles and the peace Of La
hore With the Sikhs: The next year was starred
with the of Buena Vista, Vera Cruz,
Cerro Gordo, Puebla, Contreras. Churubusco.
Molino del Rey, Chapultepec and Mexico. and
there were civil war in Switzerland and revolt
in the two Sicilies.
TWO CONTINENTS CoNvULsED.
The Treaty of Gaudelupe Hidalgo at the be-
ginning Of 1S4S marked epoch in the worlds
main on the Pacific Coast. At the same time
other movement OF supreme Importance began
in the revolutionary tide which swept over prac-
tically all the enlightened lands of Continental
Europe. Italy. from Alps A1tna, first felt
it's force, with Charles Albert's epoch making
Constitution; then France. with Louis Philippe's
abdication and a short lived republic; then Aus
tria, with the fall Of Metternich; then Rome.
with Papal Constitution: then Hungary with
the rise OF Kossuth: then Prussia and Bavaria;
the Sar rdnan war against Austria and the first
Schleswig- HI Holstein War followed the Chartists
Ireland essayed revolt; the Frankfort Parlia-
ment net; and so the storm swept over the Con-
tinent, while afar off the second Sikh War be-
gan and another Boer war led TO the founding
OF the Transvaal. Such was 1S4S.
Its sequences in 1S49 included the crushing
of Hungary by Austria with Russia's ruthless
aid, the defeat OF Charles Albert and the ac-
cession OF Victor Emmanuel H. French interven-
tion at Rome and the submission of the Sikhs.
Tai-Ping rebellion I'm China. Louis Napoeon's
coup d'etat gave 1851 bad re-eminence. and
in the same year the first Schleswig- Holstein
War was ended, there was another revolution
in Portugal and the first British war with Bur-
NAH was begun. And thus the war storms OF
western Europe for space subsided.
THE CRIMEA. JAPAN AND ITALY.
They arose in the East however with Monte
negro's revolt against Turkey in 1852 followed
the next year by the Crimean War. with its
Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman in 1854. In the
last named year, too O'Donnell had his
luton in Spain, Russia gained control OF Khiva
and the United States began a in his
tory with the opening of Japan Walkers
flibustering in Central America began in 1850
and the Crlmean War pressed to the fall of
Sebastopol and Kars. Civil war in Kansas came
in 1856, together with the end of the Crimean
War, the PRONUNCIATION of the Hatti-Humayun,
ODonners dictatorship in Spain British annex
alton Of Dude, second British-Chinese war and
the Persian against British India.
The Mormon rebellion occurred in 1857. and the
same year saw the Sepoy Mutiny with the Gavin
pore massacre and the defence and relief of
Lucknow. The mutiny ended the next year.
Great Britain and France vanquished China and
dictated the treaties of Tien-Tsin, Russia seized
the Amoor provinces. and France began her con-
quest of Anam. The Sardinian-French war
against Austria in 1859 led, by way OF Magenta
and Solferno to the Treaty of Villa Franca
Spain warred with Morocco, Russia subjugated
the Caucasus and Mexico was in the throeS of
civil war GaribaIdi and his Red Shirts went
to Marsala in 1860 and that year all Italy
save Rome united under the RE Galantuomo."
IE the same year the French intervened in Syria,
and English and French army seized and
despoiled Peking.
GREATEST WARS OF MODERN TIMES.
The year 1861 marked the opening of yet an
other era, with the outbreak of Civil
War, one of the greatest in magnitude and in
Importance the world has ever known. At the
same time Great Britain. France and Spain be-
gan their intervention in Mexico OF the great
battles and campaigns In the United States dur
ing the next three years it would be idle to at
tempt to speak here in detail. We may recall
elsewhere Garibaldps futile attack upon Rome
the Montenegrin and Servian wars against Tur-
key the Greek Revolution, and the French war
/ against Mexico for the establishment OF Maxi
mian's empire, in 1862; the Polish revolt and
the Schleswig- Holstein war; In 1863: the Russian
conquest OF Circassia, the end OF the Tai-Ping
rebellion. and wars between Peru and Spain, and
| Paraguay and Brazil in 1864
The end OF Civil War came in 1865; the
/ Gasten Convention was made between Prussia
/ and Austria and Uruguay and Argentina Joined
/ Brazil in war against Paraguay. The next year
saw Prussia's vanquishment Of Austria at
/ Sadowa through the genius of Won Moltke and
/ the REORGANIZATION OF Germany; Ttaly's redemp-
ton OF Venice and the insurrection in Crete The
British war with Abyssinia, the fall of Maxi
/ milan and establishment OF the Mexican repub-
| abolition of the Shogunate in Japan followed in
| 1867 The Spanish revolution, the expulsion of
| Queen Isabella and the beginning of the Ten
\ Years War In Cuba, the defeat of Paraguay by
4 the allies and the Russian conquest of Samar-
| kand occurred in 1865 and then breathing
suace was had in 1869, with only a Dalmatian
| insurrection and the suppression of revolts i'm
| Spain