Battles Of English History Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from England's Battles by Sea and Land a Complete Record The work is planned in epochs beginning in 1792, with the wars which sprang out of the French Revolution. The periods of peace or those in which there was no important military or naval movement. Are of course excluded, the object being to present, divested of extraneous interest, the accounts of war in which England has been engaged, or concerned. These embrace the great conflicts which closed with Waterloo; and although to people of middle age the memorials Of that time may disclose no new feature of interest, it may be doubted whether the younger generation are so well able to realise the consequences of the Victories of Wellington. The disposition is growing to dismiss what may not be of immediate service as ancient history; and the wars of Napoleon, the campaign in the Peninsula, even the threatened invasion of England, may possibly be regarded as events too re motely historical to be worth an hour's study. Yet a familiarity with the military history of that time is essential if we would understand the nature of the debt Europe owes to' England. Perhaps it may even be said that it is impossible to ignore the early wars of the century and understand the present map of Europe. The new German Empire supposed to be founded at Sadowa, was founded at Waterloo. Italy also owes her freedom to the conqueror of Napoleon. Austria, through fluctuating fortune, is regaining her strength, and owes this to her libera tion from Napoleonic influence. In short, the military and naval successes of Wellington and Nelson saved Europe and made the subsequent developments possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.