The Empire of 'The City' by Edwin C. Knuth

Author:Edwin C. Knuth
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Non fiction, History
Published: 2015-06-28T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

The Secret Sixth Great Power

In Germany and England by J. A. Cramb, M. A., late Professor o Modern History, Queen’s College, London, published in 1914, is quoted “Napoleon in 1809 attempted to wrench a planet from the hideous tentacles of this octopus, this British dominion strangling a world… And what was the stake for which England fought in all her battles against Bonaparte? The stake was world-empire, and Napoleon knew it well… In the nineteenth century there was a long series of wars in all parts of the world—in the Crimea, in India and Afghanistan, in China, in New Zealand, in Egypt in Western and in Southern Africa, so that it might be said without exaggeration that through all these years scarcely a sun set which did not look upon some Englishman’s face dead in battle—dead for England!”

The British had succeeded in destroying the preponderant French military might on the continent after 20 years of almost continuous turmoil and slaughter, in which almost every nation on the continent had been embroiled at one time or another, but British soldiers took little part in the fighting on the continent, even in the battles near the Channel commanded by the Duke of Wellington, for they were spread out all over the world engaged in seizing and occupying French and other colonial lands, and in fighting the United States in the war of 1812–1815.

While the “Battle of the Nations” at Leipzig, in which British forces took no part, marked the end of Napoleon’s control over the European continent, he later escaped from Elba in the historic “100 days”, and hurriedly organized a new army. He was overwhelmed in a four day battle on June 15th to 18th, 1815, in Belgium by an opposing force of 124,074 Prussians, 60,467 Hannoverians and other Germans, 29,214 Belgians and Dutch, and 31,253 British, who were largely raw recruits despite the fact that a 20 year British war was just being concluded. The Battle of Waterloo is generally accepted as perhaps the greatest and most glorious British victory of all time, but much British money and few British soldiers won the 20 year war with France into which Napoleon did not enter as dictator until December 13, 1799, and the 31,253 largely inexperienced British soldiers did not single-handedly defeat the 124,588 hardened veterans of Napoleon near the village of Waterloo on June 18, 1815, and thus gain for Britain almost the sole glory for the defeat of Napoleon, while General Blücher, the German victor at the gigantic slaughter at Leipzig, stood by in the role of spectator.

The House of Rothschild had its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, and it had through its loans to the numerous small nations of continental Europe at extremely high interest rates, and in some instances of additional premiums, built up what was widely considered the world’s greatest fortune, capitalized by general public custom as “The Fortune”, previous to the war between England and France. Apparently foreseeing the trend of events, one of the

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