Wars Of The Century
Alter pciuiing the history of muinJ, oiio is aimost led to the coneluaiou bat war ia tbo normal state of the raoe, nul pcaca the exoeption. In barbaron md somi-civilized tínica tliis certainly wa tho case, and perhops war Was the uecessary veul fur those floree pa-sions, whioli without it wou'd havo proyed upon the alavés of them and wrtugbt unarcliy iu the world. But in civiiited times, wlitn so many vetits are opeo to buraan energies, tt : o nught not to be the sanie de.-ire for the excitement whicli war yields. Ytt hovv much ingonuity bas beun expended upon furging weaponit af destruetion ! Ail the rosoureei of modern Science have been called iiito play to in vent machines whioli t-hall k 11 buman beings with rapidity, and now we ee wIk.Ic nations tranrformed into arniies whero but a hundred year agn it was thought a great thing to bring 100,1)00 men into the field. Turuing over the u nu als of this century, only, we fiod Lbat not a singlo year out of tbe geventy wtiicii have as yet passed has been oan "( eutire peaco. Somewhere or other there hak alwiiyfl b-en war, unit it hai been tbe mo-t civilized natioos wbohvu Joao by fr the greatest part of the fighuThua England alone has waged forty iine wars sinee 1800. Of these there lave becu three with Frunce, two witu Ivussia, üve with China, :wu with Dennark, two with Holland, two witli Turkey, two with Birmah, two with. Persia, ono witli tbe Unitfld States, ouo .v:th I'russia, one with Spain, ono with Sneden, oae with Portugal, and one with Egypt ; tho othern weie with tha Peishwu, tbe Mahrattas, the Great Moïul, Nopuul, Algiers, the Wahabees, the Piudarreea, tbe Ashantee.4, Cuffres, Huttentáis, Baers, Sikhs, Afgbans, Ctnadiaa rebels, Paraguay, Seinde, Sepoy muti iicers, Maoriü, Japan, and Abyssinia. d"iance figures iu thirty-seven wur, viz : four witb Austria, three with Russia, lliiL'u wilh Pruüsia (iucluding the preit-.iiit war), three wilh England, four willi the Arab tribes, two with Mexico, two rtith Chiua, two with Spaio, two witb. Portugal, one with Hayti, one with Switzerland, oue wilh Deuniirk, one witli Swedsn, ouo with Algiers, one witl Morocco, oue witb Paraguay, one with, Japan, and one with the Roman Repub lia Itu sia Bhows a littt of tweiity-one wars, viz: tbree with F ranee, three with Turkey, two with Eügland, two witii Polaud, two wiih Persia, two witU Khiva, two with Bokhara, oue wiiU Sweden, ooe wi;h Huugary, ono wilh Egypt, one with China, aud one (very loug aud bloody) with C roassia. Austria Ggurcs iu twelve, viz : five with Franco, tbree with It&ly, onu witb Prussia, one with Eluugary, one with Denmark and one wi h Egypt. Piussiu comes last wiih seven, viz : three with France, two with Denmark, one with Austria, aai duo witb Euglaud. So much for the leading powers of tho Old World. But to tha deaolating wars above eoumerated must be added the iiutneroui revolutionary tiiovemuots ia I aly and Spain, iuvariab'y suppressed with great bloodabed ; the dynastie contesta of the Carlis's and Chri-tiiuos iu Spain, wbioh are not extiuct yet, and of tbe Miguelites and Pedroitet in Portugal, all of whieh oécasiouod great misery uud loss of life. Tiieu there was the war i'f independeDoe in Greeoe, which lasted mi.re than seven years, and wa at last turuiiuated bv tb-: iutervenlion of Uujtlaod, Frauoe aud Rtssia, and the battle of Navarino. Uu this continent war has ben the cbronio state of the Sou'beru portion of it ever since the Spjnisb cjl.inies threw oíF tho yoko of the mother country. Iuoessant revolutions oonstitute the dreary history of Mexico anti tbo Soulh American States, but we have not been without our tronbles. We have bad several Iudiau wurs, a with E, "land, one with Mexico, aud our great civil war. Cuba, Ilayti aud San Dumiugo have sufifered at intervalo from the sania scourge. Jirazil bas reccutly couclutlcd a long and costly atruggle witb Paraguay, and, in short, it is d.fluuilt tú cali to mind a single nation iu the world wbioh ha oot been involvod iu w..r of s-.iut) kind or other, douii'Stic or foreigu, iu the cours of the present century. Asia bas seen an enormous amount of bloodahed during tbe past eveuty years. There bava been the iucessant wars carried on by the Euglish in India, Birmah, Nogre aud Chiua ; and by the French ia Cochin Ciiina aud Annam; also by the Rusians with the Circussiaos and tbo wild tribes of Central Asia, and witb, Turkey and Persia ; also by the Turku wilh tbe Peisi&na wiib the Persiaus and tbc Kgyptians ; by the Persiana wilh the lieloocbees, Afgbaus and Tartars; and tbere have been tho continual domestio wars aniong the Afghan, Sikh, Maburatta and otber ilindoo chiefs, for supremacy For the first fifteen jears of tbia oentury there was war all over Europe, and it extended even to tbia continent. During tbe next ten years it spread all over Mexioo, Central aod South Amerioa (exoepting Brazil). Tbeu Asia and África carne in for tbeir turn, with tha Freoch in Algeria, the English at the Cupe and oa the west coatu, and Egypt on tbo east; tbe Riiisians iu Turkey aud CiroMsia; the Euglish and tbe Frenoii in India and China. This Ltnted for twenty-ñvd yeaiü, whcu the scène shifted to Europu ouüo iii"iü, and the Crimeau war, tbe wars ia Hungary, Itily, Den mark, Germany, aud lasily, Frauoe, havo tillnd up the reuriiuder of tho time. -
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