Author: G. W. Redway

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-07

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780267992683

Excerpt from Wellington and Waterloo OF England's greatest men two only depend for their fame upon their achievements as soldiers, and both were employed in our foreign wars for the maintenance of the balance of power in Europe. We refer, of course, to Marlborough and Wellington. Louis XIV, who died in 1715, and Napoleon I, who was deposed in 1815, were alike in being absolute monarchs of a type that the Western world could not stomach it became necessary to destroy the armies and fleets which were the instru ments of their ambition, and England's then close ties with Germany led to a military partnership; so that Marlborough and Eugene are coupled in the history of the eighteenth as are Wellington and Bliicher in that of the nineteenth century. Our present purpose, how ever, is to treat of Wellington and tell once more the story of Waterloo. 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.