The Victories of Wellington and the British Armies

The Victories of Wellington and the British Armies

Introduction.State of England, military and political.India.Critical situation of British interests.Marquis Wellesley appointed to the Government.His measures.War declared.Tippoo attacks the army of Cannanore.Seringapatam invested.Stormed by General Baird.Death, character, and anecdotes of the Sultaun of Mysore.Military observations.Acts of cruelty.Tippoo killed by an Irish soldier. The history of military nations exhibits periods of disaster and success, when good and evil fortune, as if ruled by a fatality, prevail. With some, in every essay, conquest crowns their arms; while the bravest efforts of others terminate invariably in defeat. Again, the best measures fail to obtain success,mischances follow thick upon each other,possessions are lost,power declines,and a name, before which a world once trembled, becomes a by-word, and is rarely used but to mark the mutability of national prosperity. In looking back on past events, perhaps the gloomiest period of British history will be found between the outbreak of the war of independence, in 1775, and that of the French revolution at the close of the last century. Conquest deserted those banners which for ages she had crowned with victory,the days of Englands glory seemed departed,and her military dispositions were rendered nugatory by a thousand accidental occurrences, which no human prudence could foresee. Disciplined valour was defeated by the raw levies of her own colonists, and her continental influence was placed in2 abeyance for a time, by those splendid victories achieved by the armies of the French Republic over the best organized and best commanded troops in Europe. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 56689
Author: Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton)
Release Date: Mar 7, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English