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Excerpt from The New World of the South: Australia in the Making Seeley, who loves - sometimes not wisely but too well - a Spacious generalisation, says that all the European wars of the eighteenth century had, in the last analysis, a common purpose. Each was a phase of the stapen dous duel for the new world the wrestle betwixt Greater Britain and Greater France for the prize of a Colonial Empire. Great battles, he thinks, were fought on the Rhine and the Danube to determine which nation should own the Mississippi, or be supreme on the Ganges. Even Napoleon was aiming at Calcutta when he hutted his invading army at Boulogne; he fought his way into Vienna or Berlin, because through it lay the road to Quebec or to Bombay. 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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