One fact more. The British Army is small among the armies of the world. The aim of Britain is not to attack any other power, but merely to defend her Empire. Moreover, Britain can perhaps afford to have a small army because she has a great fleet. Under ordinary circumstances she may count on preventing an enemy from invading most of her territories, in force at any rate, by the help of her fleet alone. This is the basis of the British Peace. The use to which Britain puts her strength is to carry the idea of justice, which her children learn at home, through all the lands whose happiness has, in the course of history, been entrusted to her. [Sidenote: 50. Holyrood Palace, with Troops on Parade.] [Sidenote: 51. Trooping of the Colour.] [Sidenote: 52. Sailors Marching Past.--Birthday Review.] [Sidenote: 53. The Emperor-King in Naval Uniform.] The Army and the Navy, as everything else in the Empire, are headed by our Emperor-King. For one last moment let us return from the Empire to Britain itself. Here is one of the King’s Highland Regiments before his Scottish palace at Holyrood on his birthday. Here on the same occasion are his Guards in London, and here his sailors at Portsmouth. For the sake of order, of justice, and of peace the subjects of the King are loyal, and recognize the duty of obedience. Here, finally, is our Emperor-King Edward, as Admiral of the British Fleet. [Sidenote: 54. The Flag of the British Empire.] What is the chief lesson we should carry away from these Lectures? Is it not that the Empire can only be defended as a whole, and with the full co-operation of all its citizens? Surely then it is the duty of each of us to uphold the flag and to learn something of the defences of the Empire, and of the way it should be guarded and its rights and honour maintained before the world. _Waterlow & Sons Limited, Printers, London Wall, London._ Transcriber’s Notes Inconsistencies in hyphenation and spelling such as “battle-field/battlefield” and “hay-stack/hay stack” have been maintained. Multiple punctuation errors, such as missing periods, have silently been corrected. Contents: Changed page “22” to page “32”. Page 2: Changed “moutains” to “mountains”. Page 27: Changed “Pekin” to “Peking”. Page 32: Added “a” to “take train”. Page 41: Changed “Phillipines” to “Philippines”. Page 70: Changed “V irginia” to “Virginia”. Page 90: Changed “closelv” to “closely”. Page 93: Changed “snores” to “shores”. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Seven Lectures on the United Kingdom for use in India, by Halford John Mackinder