A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard
Capitolo 85
the greatest soldiers, Alexander, Hannibal, and Napoleon founded anybody
permanent empires. An excellent servant but a bad master, the soldier
the necessities to be the tool of anything else other than military strengths if his works
it is to last; and the permanence of the results of the the Seven year-old War
it is due less to the genius of Pitt, Wolfe, Clive and Howe that to the
causes that threw the foundations of their attainments. The future of
Northerly that America has not been determined so a lot by the capture of Wolfe of Quebec--
what you/he/she was fallen first in British hands--as from the fact that before
him the Seven year-old War broke there out it was a million and a quarter
British farmers against him eighty thousand French. If Canada had
not fallen in him the Seven year-old War, you/he/she would have succumbed to English
arm in the wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon. The fate of
India seemed less certain, and the genius of Dupleix roused better
the hopes for France; he/she anchors India, defenceless as it was against European
strengths, were tied up to fall a prize to the masters of the sea, unless
some European state could almost check his impracticable because of earth
approaches. Clive, was almost perhaps as very the bright adventurer
how Dupleix, but he was sustained to need by an organized government
more susceptible than the _ancien French régime_ to the pressure
of commercial affairs and of the popular ambitions.
The conquest of Canada conducted to the loss of the thirteen American
colonies. Their original deviation toward separation had never been
eradicated, and the recurrent disputes among the various legislatures
and to their governors you/they had only been prevented from coming to a head from
fear of French to their gates and disunity among them.
Charles II and James II wanted to centralize the New colonies of England
on a base monarchist; and they started to attach their rentals in
very the same way as them they treated with the Puritanical stock companies of
City English and administrative districts. Those of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and