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Excerpt from A Short History of the Union Jack: Comprising a Chronological List of Its Important Victories, Apportioned to the Three Stages of Our Flag's Development, From Sluys to Tel-El-Kebir, With Notes on the Principal Battles

One of the difficulties of the work was the obtaining of correct dates - rather a unanimity of the authorities, for in this respect I found a surprising variation: the claim to accuracy of those I have given lies only in the fact that they are those of the majority of my references.

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Excerpt from A Short History of the Union Jack: Comprising a Chronological List of Its Important Victories, Apportioned to the Three Stages of Our Flag's Development, From Sluys to Tel-El-Kebir, With Notes on the Principal Battles

This little work was begun as a diversion during a vacation, and was originally intended to be a mere pamphlet for use in the author's household only, as a supplement to the ordinary school text-books used by the members - especially the boys - of his family; but as the task progressed it grew correspondingly more congenial, and, in the enthusiasm of the subject, proceeded until it attained, almost unwittingly, the proportions of a small volume, which, at the earnest solicitations of his friends, he has ventured to offer to the public.

Apologies for defects of such efforts are often prefixed more to propitiate vanity than for any real excuse: human nature, all the world knows, is not infallible - it is the best I could do in the short time and the very limited resources at my disposal, for I have had no opportunity for recourse to anything outside my own small library.

To attempt a description of each of the battles listed in the following pages would, practically, be to write a complete military history of the British Empire, which the author of this simple work is not so presumptuous as to essay.

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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.