A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks: Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863 — John Shaqi
A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks: Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863Gowing, T. (Timothy)
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A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks: Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863
Gowing, T. (Timothy)
Crimean War, 1853-1856 -- Personal narratives
X. Moreover, we must take pains to establish and maintain an
intimate union with Austria, apparently countenancing her
schemes for future aggrandisement in Germany, and all the
while secretly arousing the jealousies of the minor States
against her. In this way we must bring it to pass that one
or the other party shall seek aid from Russia, and thus we
shall exercise a sort of protectorate over the country,
which will pave the way for future supremacy.
XI. We must make the House of Austria interested in the
expulsion of the Turks from Europe, and we must neutralise
its jealousy at the capture of Constantinople, either by
pre-occupying it with a war with the old European States, or
by allowing it a share of the spoil, which we can afterwards
resume at our leisure.
XII. We must collect round our House, as round a centre, all
the detached sections of Greeks which are scattered abroad
in Hungary, Turkey, and South Poland. We must make them look
to us for support, and then, by establishing beforehand a
sort of ecclesiastical supremacy, we shall pave the way for
universal sovereignty.
XIII. When Sweden is ours, Persia vanquished, Poland
subjugated, Turkey conquered--when our armies are united,
and the Euxine and the Baltic are in the possession of our
fleets--then we must make separate and secret overtures,
first to the Court of Versailles and then to that of Vienna,
to share with them the dominion of the world. If either of
them accept our propositions, which is certain to happen if
their ambitions and self-interest are properly worked upon,
we must make use of the one to annihilate the other; this
done, we have only to destroy the remaining one by finding a
pretext for a quarrel, the issue of which cannot be
doubtful, as Russia will then be already in the absolute
possession of the East and of the best part of Europe.
XIV. Should the improbable case happen of both rejecting the
propositions of Russia, then our policy will be to set one
against the other, and make them tear each other to pieces.
Russia must then watch for and seize the favourable moment
and pour her already-assembled hosts into Germany, while two
immense fleets, laden with Asiatic hordes and conveyed by
the armed squadrons of the Euxine and the Baltic, set sail
simultaneously from the Sea of Azoff and the Harbour of
Archangel, sweeping along the Mediterranean and the
Atlantic, they will overrun France on the one side, while
Germany is overpowered on the other. When these countries
are fully conquered the rest of Europe must fall--must fall
easily and without a struggle--under one yoke. Thus Europe
can and must be subjugated.
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