The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-22
THE WORLDS WARS.
Britain Has Had One for Each Year
of Victorfa's Reign.

Britain Has Had One for Each Year
of VictOria's Reign.
London Express.
Few persons will be surprised to learn
that Great Britain has been long way
ahead Of other European nations in the
great game of war during the present
reign.
The wars, great and small, which this
country has been engaged in number in
the neighhorhood of siXty-or almost one
Tor every year of the queens reign.
They include big wars such as that on
which we are still engaged-the Crimean
war, the Indian mutiny, the campaigns
of Zululand, Afghanistan, Ashantee,
Egypt, the Soudan, China and Burma,
besides such miscellaneous items as OPP
erat3ons in Chitral, the Black mountain,
Tochi and the Mirazai valley. There
have been wars during the present reign
which few persons ever think Of Who
now remembers that we once had a war
with Persia? And yet it is, comparative
ly, not SO long ago. There have been
TOUR Ashantee and three Chinese wars.
ihese are startling facts, and bring home
10 all of US the Warlike character of the
Indian race.
IL Is hardly an eXaggera ton to say that
British guns have hardly ceased to thun-
der and British bayonets to strike terror
into the enemy in all the sixty-three
years of the reign-sometimes in the
fetid, mtasmic swamps of West Africa,
sometimes on the icy plains of the
Cr1mea, sometimes on the sandy wastes
OF the Soudan, but in whatever quarter
Of the globe, with honor.
France and Russia each have ten cam
Paigns to their credit. The former has
crossed swords with Germany, Austria,
and Russia (the last in alliance with
England and Turkey in her time, and
mas carried the tricolor into Dahomey,
Morocco, China, Mexico, Siam and Mad
agascar, with more or less success.
Russia's luck in war his not been start
ling. She had to bend the knee in the
Crimea to a combined army of English,
French, Turks and Sardinians though
she was, however, successful in the con-
f1ict with Turkey in 1877 Her Afghan
and Central Asian campaigns have given
her vast amount of trouble, notably the
1873.
The Turk is a f1rst-class fighting man,
and the crescent has been almost uni
1ormly successful when it has flown in
battle The first Greek campaign dur
ing this region took place in 1853, and the
last in 1897. but Hellas was humbIed
every time The ottoman empire has also
had trouble in Montenegro and Servia,
and has come out on top; and, though
defeated by Russia in 1877, the plucky
fight put up by the Turk will always
be remembered with admiration. 1t was
an honorable defeat. Spain comes next,
with six foreign wars, the first in Mo-
rocco, in 1889 and the last with the Unit
ed States, in 1898.
Austria, Greece and Italy have four
campaigns each; Germany has the same
number, in each of which she was sue
cessful; and little Denmark brings up the
rear with two, Both conflicts were with
Russia, and in both the bigger nation
won.
The map of the world has been great
ly altered since the queen assembled the
throne; and, on the whole, Britain has no
reason to regret those changes, for they
have almost invariably meant expansion
of empire for us. The price of empire
has often been dear, but our gallant
sailors and soldiers have never grudged
paying in full.