This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... 21 REMARKS ON THE MILITARY CONDITION OF GREAT BRITAIN.1 The Duke of Wellington has repeatedly and strongly given his opinion of the inadequacy of the military condition and establishments of this country for even self-protection. If such an opinion needed confirmation, it has met with it in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... 21 REMARKS ON THE MILITARY CONDITION OF GREAT BRITAIN.1 The Duke of Wellington has repeatedly and strongly given his opinion of the inadequacy of the military condition and establishments of this country for even self-protection. If such an opinion needed confirmation, it has met with it in the concurrence of that of every military man who has given any attention to the subject. About the years 1845, 1846, some slight improvements were commenced, which have since been gradually checked; and the yielding to the pressure for reduction of expenditure, and of taxation, has led not only to the present low scale of military organization, but it has been held out to the public by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary-at-War, in Parliament, to expect that it shall be still further reduced. At the risk of the accusation of being importunate, it would seem to be a duty to endeavour to explain once more how the circumstances referred to by the Duke remain unchanged, and how the present course of proceeding, if persevered in, must necessarily lead to imminent danger to the most vital interests, and the very safety of the country, and to consequences with which no financial views can be placed in competition. 1 In 1850. The very object of armed forces and military means appears to be gradually diminishing from sight. Referring to the debates in the House of Commons on the estimates, the troops seem to be considered merely as a reserved police, for the preservation of internal tranquillity at home and abroad, and the scale for their maintenance and their capabilities to be measured solely by the requirements of a time of peace; whereas, a much more essential ingredient is, a condition that shall be adequate to meet foreign aggression, whenever...
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Good. 8vo 8"-9" tall; 479 pages; Rebound in heavy red library buckram cloth with titles stamped in white to spine. Snugly bound, ex-library copy has some several ex-lib indications and attachments. Some mild pencil bracketing scattered in the margisn of the 1st half of the text. Solid and generally neat in library binding. Good only thus.
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