. The child's book of England. it was threeyears before they were conquered, and theEnghsh had to send thousands of soldiersfrom England with two great generals, LordKitchener and Lord Roberts, before victorycould be won. Queen Victoria was quite anold woman when the Boer War was fought andit made her last days very sad. She died,indeed, before the war came to an end. Whenat last the Boers were conquered the Englishsaid to them : We do not want to makeyou slaves and we do not want to force you todo what you are told by the English Parlia-ment. We want you to live in peace with theEnglish in So
. The child's book of England. it was threeyears before they were conquered, and theEnghsh had to send thousands of soldiersfrom England with two great generals, LordKitchener and Lord Roberts, before victorycould be won. Queen Victoria was quite anold woman when the Boer War was fought andit made her last days very sad. She died,indeed, before the war came to an end. Whenat last the Boers were conquered the Englishsaid to them : We do not want to makeyou slaves and we do not want to force you todo what you are told by the English Parlia-ment. We want you to live in peace with theEnglish in South Africa and with them to makeyour own laws and govern your own land. Allthat we want is that South Africa shall be a freepart of the British Empire, just like Australiaand Canada and New Zealand. I hope youwill think this was a fine thing for Englandto have said, and I am sure that you will beglad to know that most of the Boers agreedto do what England asked. At the presenttime, a Boer, called General Smuts, who fought 208. THE DAYS OF QUEEN VICTORIA against the English twenty years ago, is thehead of the South African Government and atrue and faithful friend of England, and whenthe Great War began, Boer soldiers came fromSouth Africa to fight on the side of theEnglish. So you will see England has gainedvery much from being just and fair andmerciful. England has always been very interested inEgypt, and perhaps you remember that, whenNapoleon took a French army to Egypt, theEnglish Government immediately sent LordNelson and the English warships after him,and that Nelson destroyed the French fleet atthe battle of the Nile. Egypt is important toEngland because it is on the road to fifty years ago, a clever Frenchengineer dug right through the Isthmus ofSuez and made a canal, which, if youlook at the map, you will see joins theMediterranean Sea with the Red Sea. Afterthis canal was made, when a ship was sailingfrom England to India, instead of going allround Africa,
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