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Excerpt from The Naval Operations of the War Between Great Britain and the United States, 1812-1815, Vol. 6 This holds true of the bickering war between Britain and America which closed the gigantic Napoleonic struggles. During nearly a quarter of a century of tremendous warfare, Britain and France stood as opposing champions in a struggle which dwarfed all previous contests and convulsed the entire civilised world. As has been seen, every other nation of Europe was at one time or another drawn into this struggle, and almost every other nation sided now with one, and now with the other, of the great central pair of combatants. Russia and Spain, Austria and Prussia, Holland and Turkey, appeared, now as the subservient allies, now as the bitter enemies, of Republican and Imperial France. The Island Monarchy alone never wavered, and never faltered. In the countless shifting coalitions framed against France, there was always one unshifting figure, that of Britain. Kaiser and King, Tsar and Cortes, might make war, or sue for peace; but, save for one brief truce, the people of Britain never for a moment relaxed that deadly strain of hostility which at last wore out even Napoleon's giant strength. It was a life and death struggle; and to win, Britain had to spend her gold, her ships, and her men like water. 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.

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• Full title: Naval Operations of the War Between Great Britain and the United States, 1812-1815, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Theodore Roosevelt
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300
• EAN: 9781331065517
• ISBN: 9781331065517
• ID: 09715781
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 404 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. July 2015

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