Transactions Of The Royal Historical Society 1915 Vol 9 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1915, Vol. 9 Came like a deluge on the South, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands. While the general aspects Of the war appeal to the imagination of historians, one part of the world-wide field in which it is waged has a special interest for us as English men. We associate with the names of the cities and rivers of Belgium memories of older battles than those which now turn them to heaps of ashes and redden the waters. There is hardly a place in Belgium or on its borders in which the ancestors of the English soldiers fighting now have not fought in times past. The names of Nieuport, Ostend, Antwerp, Ypres, and many other places take us back to earlier triumphs or reverses. All have their niche in the pages of our military history. \vhy is it that so many of our battles have been fought in this particular plot Of ground? It seemed to me that it would be not inappro priate to consider the causes which have produced the constant repetition of the same phenomena in successive centuries, and to link the present with the past by showing why we were Originally led to fight on Belgian soil, and to make its defence the traditional Object of English policy. 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.